{{Other ships|HMS Chub}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image= |image_caption= }}
|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country=United Kingdom |flag={{shipboxflag|UKGBI|naval}} |name=HMS ''Chub'' |ordered=11 December 1805 |builder=Goodrich & Co. (prime contractor), Bermuda |laid_down=1806 |launched=May 1807 |acquired= |commissioned= |decommissioned= |in_service= |out_of_service= |renamed= |struck= |reinstated= |honours= |captured= |fate=Wrecked 14 August 1812 |notes= }}
|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption={{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=359}} |class= |type=''Ballahoo''-class schooner |tons_burthen=70{{small|{{fraction|41|94}}}} (bm) |length=*{{convert|55|ft|2|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (overall) *{{convert|40|ft|10+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel) |beam={{convert|18|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}} |draught= |hold_depth={{convert|9|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}} |sail_plan=Schooner |complement=20 |armament= 4 × 12-pounder carronades |notes= }} }} '''HMS ''Chub''''' (or ''Chubb'') was a British Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1807.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=359}} She and her crew were lost when she was wrecked in August 1812. __TOC__
==Service== ''Chub'' was commissioned in March 1807 under Lieutenant Wentworth Parsons Croke. ''Chub'' may have assisted at the invasion of Martinique between January and February 1809.{{sfnp|O'Byrne|1849|p=245}} If so, she does not appear among the vessels whose crews qualified for the Naval General Service Medal when the Admiralty awarded it in 1847.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20939|page=242|date=26 January 1849}}</ref>
Lieutenant William Innes replaced Croke in June 1809 (who went on to command the schooner {{HMS|Shamrock|1808|2}}), and was in turn replaced by Lieutenant Samuel Nisbett in 1812.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=359}}
On 5 March 1812 ''Chub'' left Bermuda to search for ''Mary'', Wilson, master, which had been sailing from Tobago to London. Admiral Sawyer had received information that ''Mary'' was in great distress from leaks and trying to reach Bermuda.<ref>''Lloyd's List'' [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=293 (''LL'') №4664.]</ref> ''Chub'' returned two days later without having found ''Mary''. By 8 April ''Mary'' had still not arrived at Bermuda and it was feared that she had foundered.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=317 ''LL'' №4702.]</ref>
''Chub'' captured several vessels in 1812 while on the Halifax station. On 18 July she captured the privateer ''Eliza'' and on 6 August the merchantman ''Grace''.<ref>Baker, Harrison Scott, II (transcriber) ''American Prisoners of War Held at Halifax, During the War of 1812'', Volume I. (Society of the War of 1812, Ohio).</ref> Then on 18 July she recaptured ''Ann'', M'Donald, master, which had been sailing from Cadiz to St John's when the American privateer ''Teazer'' captured her the day before. ''Chub'' brought ''Ann'' into Liverpool.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=365 ''LL'' №4702.]</ref>
On 12 August, at dusk, ''Chub'' came under friendly fire from {{HMS|Emulous|1806|6}}, which mistook ''Chubb'' for an American privateer. ''Chubb'' had earlier stopped at Liverpool, Nova Scotia and taken on board some volunteers who wanted to go a cruise with her. A chain-shot from ''Emulous'' killed two of these volunteers, Ebenezer Herrington (or Harrington), and John Scott.{{sfnp|More|1873|pp=184-5}} Herrington was buried in the Old Burying Ground in Halifax.{{sfnp|Trask|2015|p=58}} ''Chubb'' returned the surviving volunteers to Liverpool and resumed her cruise.{{sfnp|More|1873|pp=184-5}}
==Fate== ''Chub'' was driven ashore on 14 August on the "Sisters" (Black Rocks) within two miles of the Sambro Island Light near Halifax, Nova Scotia.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=359}}{{sfnp|Gosset|1986|p=84}} Nisbett and all on board perished.{{sfnp|Grocott|1997|p=343}}{{sfnp|Hepper|1994|p=141}} She was stationed with the blockade of the American fleet at the time of sinking.
==Citations== {{reflist}}
==References== * {{cite book|first1=William Patrick |last1=Gosset |year=1986 |title=The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900 |publisher=Mansell |isbn=0-7201-1816-6 }} * {{cite book |last=Grocott | first=Terence |title=Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras |publisher=Chatham |location=London |year=1997 |isbn=1861760302}} * {{cite book |last1=Hepper |first1=David J. |year=1994 |title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859 |publisher=Jean Boudriot |location=Rotherfield |isbn=0-948864-30-3}} * {{cite book |last1=More |first1=James F. |year=1873 |title=The History of Queens County, N.S. |publisher=Nova Scotia printing Company}} * {{Cite NBD1849 |wstitle=Croke, Wentworth Parsons |page=259}} * {{cite journal |last1=Trask |first1=Debprah |year=2015 |title=Putting the War of 1812 to Rest |journal=Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Journal |volume=18 }} * {{cite book |first1=Rif |last1=Winfield |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates |publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008 |isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
{{Ballahoo class schooner}}
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