HMS Chub (or Chubb) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 Ballahoo-class schooner

Ballahoo class schooner

The Ballahoo class was a Royal Navy class of eighteen 4-gun schooners built under contract in Bermuda during the Napoleonic War. The class was an attempt by the Admiralty to harness the expertise of Bermudian shipbuilders who were renowned for their fast-sailing craft...

 of four 12-pounder carronade

Carronade

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s and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda

Bermuda

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, and she was launched in 1807. She and her crew were lost when she was wrecked in August 1812.

Service

Chub was commissioned in March 1807 under Lieutenant Wentworth Croke. Lieutenant William Innes replaced Croke in June 1809, and was in turn replaced by Lieutenant Samuel Nisbett in 1812.

Chub captured several vessels in 1812 while on the Halifax

City of Halifax

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 station. On 18 July she captured the privateer Eliza and on 6 August the merchantman Grace.

Fate

Chub was driven ashore and lost with all hands on 14 August on the "Sisters" (Black Rocks) within two miles of the Sambro Island Light near Halifax

City of Halifax

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, Nova Scotia. All on board perished. She was stationed with the blockade of the American fleet at the time of sinking.