Parthian: The HMS Parthian was a Cherokee Class Brigantine Sloop of 238 tons built at Barnard, Deptford, launched 13 February 1808 on the River Thames for the British Royal Navy. She was 90.3 feet in length, 24.5 feet in beam, and 12.5 feet in draught, with 10 guns and a compliment of 75 officers and crew. The ship saw service in the British Channel, Downs, and North Sea in 1809, Jamaica Station (1818), again in Channel service (1823), and the Mediterranean Station (1826). Cross-section of a Cherokee Class Sloop (HMS Beagle pictured) On 15 May 1828 the HMS Parthian, under the command of Com. Hon. George Fredrick Hotham, was wrecked by stranding approximately 16-miles west of Mayabout Island when a southerly current sent the ship off course. At the subsequent court-martial it was established that the lead line (sounding line) had not been used and Com. Hotham and the Master, Edward Sawkins, were both admonished to be more careful in the future. References: The Project Gutenberg eBook, Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy: between 1793 and 1849, by William O. S. Gilly http://www.parthia.com/ships/parthia_13.htm http://www.woodenwalls.co.uk/hms_ships.htm http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?17303 http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1664