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Name: AUTUMN
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 1800
Completed: 1800
Builder: Ann Brodrick
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 335 tonsb, 78.5 x 28.3 x ?ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail; rigged as a Sloop
Construction: Wood
Armament: 12 x 1 x 24pdr, 2 x 1 x 18pdr carronades
History:
1800 Ann Brodrick, South Shields
28/02/1801 British Royal Navy
15/02/1811 Renamed STROMBOLO
09/02/1815 Mr Rattenbury, London; renamed AUTUMN
29/10/1817 Wrecked
Comments: 1811: Refitted as a bomb vessel
Armament then 1 x 13ins and 1 x 10ins mortars;
8 x 1 x 24pdr carronades and 2 x 1 x 6pdr guns
09/02/1815: Sold for £1,680 and converted back into a merchantman
29/10/1817: Wrecked on the coast of Iceland. All 20 crew died
On a voyage from Quebec to Dundee