HMS Recruit (1846)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Recruit.

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Recruit
Ordered	6 May 1844
Builder	Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
Launched	10 June 1846
Fate	Sold 28 August 1849
General characteristics
Class and type	Brig
Tons burthen	462 bm
Length	114 ft 5 in (34.87 m) (gundeck) 92 ft 5 in (28.17 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 8.5 in (9.360 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	12 guns, comprising 2 x 18-pounder guns and 10 x 32-pounder guns.

HMS Recruit was a 12-gun iron-hulled sailing brig of the Royal Navy, constructed by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company and launched in 1846.

Recruit was the first iron-hulled vessel to be built for the Admiralty, and the Royal Navy's only iron-hulled sailing ship. She was sold back to her builders, Ditchburn and Mare on 28 August 1849, and was resold in 1852 to the General Screw Steam Shipping Company and converted into a screw steamer for the East Indian and Cape mail service, and renamed SS Harbinger.

Sources

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Lyon, David & Winfield, Rif (2004), The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
• "General Screw Steam Shipping Company 1848-1857". The Ships List. Archived from the original on 2 January 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2008.