- Source: List of vessels lost on the Haak Sand on 24 December 1811
On 24 December 1811, a storm resulted in the wrecking of six 24.3/info/vessels" target="_blank">vessels on the 24.3/info/haak" target="_blank">Haak 24.3/info/sand" target="_blank">Sand north of Texel and the loss of over 600 lives.
Grasshopper, The 74-gun HMS Hero, the ship-sloop Egeria, the brig-sloop Grasshopper and the hired armed ship Prince William left Göteborg on 18 December 1811 as escorts to a convoy of 15 transports and a fleet of merchantmen, some 120 sail or more. Four or five days later Egeria and Prince William separated, together with the 24.3/info/vessels" target="_blank">vessels going to the Humber and Scotland, including most of the merchant 24.3/info/vessels" target="_blank">vessels. The transports and a handful of the merchantmen proceeded with Hero and Grasshopper.
On 24–25 December Hero and Grasshopper and the 24.3/info/vessels" target="_blank">vessels they were escorting encountered a storm that result in the loss of most of them.
Naval 24.3/info/vessels" target="_blank">vessels
Transport 24.3/info/vessels" target="_blank">vessels and merchantmen
See also
HMS St George § last voyage and loss in the same storm off Jutland
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of vessels lost on the Haak Sand on 24 December 1811
- List of accidents and disasters by death toll
- HMS St George (1785)
- List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy
- List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy
- List of maritime disasters in the 19th century
- List of shipwrecks in 1811
- List of shipwrecks in 1810
- List of shipwrecks in 1817
- List of shipwrecks in 1812
