HMS Carcass (1759)
View of the Racehorse and Carcass August 7th 1773, when inclosed in the ice in Lat. 80o 37.N. Engraved for Payne's Universal Geography Vol V Page 481', Page; after John Cleveley
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| Name: | HMS Carcass |
| Ordered: | 21 September 1758 |
| Builder: | Stanton & Wells, Rotherhithe |
| Laid down: | 28 September 1758 |
| Launched: | 27 January 1759 |
| Commissioned: | 27 June 1759 |
| Fate: | Sold on 5 August 1784 |
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| Class and type: | Infernal-class bomb vessel |
| Tons burthen: | 309 tons |
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| Beam: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
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| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 1 in (3.68 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 60 (110 as sloop) |
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HMS Carcass was an Infernal-class bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, later refitted as a survey vessel. A young Horatio Nelson served aboard her as a midshipman on an expedition to the Arctic in 1773.
The Infernal class were designed by Thomas Slade. Carcass was ordered from Stanton & Wells, Rotherhithe on 21 September 1758 and launched on 27 January 1759, having been named over a week previously on 19 January. She was commissioned as a sloop at Deptford Dockyard on 27 June 1759, having cost £3,757.14.6d to build, and a further £2,144.8.1d spent on fitting out.
Carcass’s first commander was Charles Inglis, who took her to join Admiral George Rodney's squadron in the English Channel. She was present at the bombardment of Le Havre on 3 July 1759, and the following year captured the 10-gun Mercury off La Rochelle. She was refitted in March 1760 for £531.15.1d, and again in 1761. She was recommissioned in January 1762 under the command of Lord William Campbell, before being refitted again, this time as a bomb vessel between February and March 1762. She came under the command of Robert Fanshawe in August 1762, before being paid off in 1763. A series of repairs and refits were carried out over the next two years, before Carcass was recommissioned in August 1765 under Captain Mark Pattison. Pattison sailed her to Jamaica in October 1765, and by September 1766 she was under Thomas Jordan. Further repairs at Deptford followed, before she was recommissioned in June 1771 under Commander Skeffington Lutwidge, serving in the Irish Sea.
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