HMS Fury (1814)
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Image depicting the Helca along with the Fury, by Arthur Parsey, 1823
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| Name: | HMS Fury |
| Ordered: | 5 June 1813 |
| Builder: | Mrs Mary Ross, Rochester, Kent |
| Laid down: | September 1813 |
| Launched: | 4 April 1814 |
| Reclassified: | Converted to Arctic discovery vessel, 1821 |
| Fate: | Bilged in Prince Regent Inlet, Baffin Island and abandoned, 25 August 1825 |
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| Class and type: | Hecla-class bomb vessel |
| Tons burthen: | 372 1⁄94 tons bm |
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| Beam: | 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 10 in (4.22 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged |
| Complement: | 67 |
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HMS Fury was a Hecla-class bomb vessel of the British Royal Navy.
The ship was ordered on 5 June 1813 from the yard of Mrs Mary Ross, at Rochester, Kent, laid down in September, and launched on 4 April 1814.
Fury saw service at the Bombardment of Algiers on 27 August 1816, under the command of Constantine Richard Moorsom.
Between November 1820 and April 1821, Fury was converted to an Arctic exploration ship and re-rated as a sloop. Commander William Edward Parry commissioned her in December 1820, and Fury then made two journeys to the Arctic, both in company with her sister ship, Hecla.
Her first Arctic journey, in 1821, was Parry's second in search of the Northwest Passage. The farthest point on this trip, the perpetually frozen strait between Foxe Basin and the Gulf of Boothia, was named after the two ships: Fury and Hecla Strait.
On her second Arctic trip, Fury was commanded by Henry Parkyns Hoppner while Parry, in overall command of the expedition, moved to Hecla. This voyage was disastrous for Fury. She was damaged by ice while overwintering and was abandoned on 25 August 1825, at what has since been called Fury Beach on Somerset Island. Her stores were unloaded onto the beach and came to the rescue of John Ross), when he lost his ship on his 1829 expedition.
In 1956, Captain T.C. Pullen, RCN, sailed HMCS Labrador on an expedition through the Northwest Passage. During this voyage Labrador recovered two Admiralty Pattern anchors on Fury Beach, Somerset Island. The anchors were left there in 1825 by the crews of Fury and Hecla, with stores, boats, and other useful items, as Fury had been beset in ice and had to be abandoned.
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