HMS Bramble
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Bramble |
Ordered | 20 March 1819 |
Builder | Plymouth Dockyard |
Laid down | August 1820 |
Launched | 8 April 1822 |
Commissioned | 21 June 1824 |
Decommissioned | 1876 |
Fate | Sold as a lightship, 23 December 1876 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bramble-class cutter |
Tons burthen | 161 bm |
Length | 70 ft 9 in (21.6 m) |
Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Draught | 10 ft 3 in (3.1 m) |
Sail plan | Fore-and-aft rig |
Armament | 10 guns |
HMS Bramble was a 161-ton, 10-gun cutter launched on 8 April 1822 from Plymouth Dockyard.[1]
She was sold as a lightship and was anchored at Sow and Pigs reef situated just on the eastern side of the channel between Middle Head and South Head, Sydney Harbour. She was purchased by Colonial Sugar Refining Co. and was fitted out as a lighter. In 1938, during the Sesquicentennial celebrations, she was chartered to the Maritime Services Board, who made the vessel into a replica of the historic HMS Supply. Afterwards she was reconverted into a lighter and was known as Registered lighter No. 79.[3]