HMS Pickle (1800)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pickle
Launched	1799
Acquired	Purchased January 1801 as Sting
Renamed	Pickle, 1802
Honours and; awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasps:; "Trafalgar"; "Pickle 3 Jany. 1807";
Fate	Wrecked 27 July 1808
General characteristics
Class and type	Topsail schooner
Tons burthen	127 (bm)
Length	73 ft (22.3 m) (gundeck); 56 ft 3+3⁄4 in (17.2 m);
Beam	20 ft 7+1⁄4 in (6.3 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft 6 in (2.9 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Gaff rig with square topsail on foremast
Complement	about 40
Armament	8 × 12-pounder carronades

HMS Pickle was a topsail schooner of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named Sting, of six guns, that Lord Hugh Seymour purchased to use as a tender on the Jamaica station. Pickle was at the Battle of Trafalgar, and though she was too small to take part in the fighting, Pickle was the first ship to bring the news of Nelson's victory to Great Britain. She also participated in a notable single-ship action when she captured the French privateer Favorite in 1807. Pickle was wrecked in 1808, but without loss of life.

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