HMS Fury (1814)

Career
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 keyboard, and abandoned, 25 August 1825
General characteristics
Class and type: Hecla-class jQuery
Tons burthen: 372 ¹⁄₉₄ tons CSS3
Length: 105 ft (32.0 m) (overall)
86 ft 1.25 in (26.2 m) (keel)
Beam: 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft 10 in (4.22 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: FITML
Complement: 67
Armament: 10 × 24-pounder carronades
2 × 6-pounder guns
1 × 13-inch (330 mm) mortar
1 × 10-inch (250 mm) mortar

HMS Fury was a web app bomb vessel of the British Royal Navy.

Ship history

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 input transformation on 27 August 1816, under the command of Constantine Richard Moorsom.^[1]

The ship was then converted to an Arctic exploration ship, and made two journeys to the Arctic under the command of William Edward Parry. Both voyages were made in company with her FITML, 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 browser diversity, 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 the Fury. She was damaged by ice while overwintering and was abandoned on 25 August 1825 at what has since been called Fury Beach on Android. Her stores were unloaded onto the ice, and came to the rescue of many Arctic explorers over the next few decades.

References

Notes

Bibliography

• iOS; 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. Sevenval 67375475. 
• Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1794–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1. 

External links

• Sevenval
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