HMS Blossom (1806)
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His Majesty's ship Blossom off the Sandwich Islands
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| Name: | HMS Blossom |
| Ordered: | 19 November 1805 |
| Builder: | Robert Guillaume, Northam |
| Laid down: | February 1806 |
| Launched: | 10 December 1806 |
| Completed: | 21 April 1807 |
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| Fate: | Broken up in August 1848 |
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| Class and type: | 18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war |
| Tons burthen: | 427 bm |
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| Beam: | 29 ft 8 3⁄4 in (9.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 121 |
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HMS Blossom was an 18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war. She was built in 1806 and is best known for the 1825–1828 expedition under Captain Beechey to the Pacific Ocean. She explored as far north as Point Barrow, Alaska, the furthest point into the Arctic any non-Inuit had been at the time. She was finally broken up in 1848.
On 26 February 1808 Blossom was in company with Eclipse when they captured the Sally and Hetty, William Fleming, Master.Blossom was in company with Jamaica when they recaptured the American brig Iris.
In the mid-morning of 23 February 1812, Blossom was five leagues off Cabrera when a strange schooner sailed towards her, mistaking her for a merchantman. When the schooner realized her mistake a five-hour chase followed before Blossom was able to capture the schooner Jean Bart. Jean Bart was of 147.5 tons (bm) and had been launched in Marseilles only five weeks earlier. She was armed with five 12 and two 6-pounder guns, and had a crew of 106 men under the command of Jean Francis Coulome. She had made no captures but within the previous five days her excellent sailing had enabled her to evade two British frigates and a brig.
On 18 August 1812, shortly after the outbreak of war with America, Blossom and Hyacinth were in sight when the letter of marque Sir Alexander Ball captured the American ship Grace Ann Green.
Blossom was re-rated as a 24-gun sixth rate in February 1817. Between July 1824 and August 1825, she was at Deptford and Woolwich being converted to serve as an exploration ship in "icy seas". In January 1825 Commander Frederick Beechey commissioned her for exploration of the Pacific Northwest.
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