HMS Chub (1807)
Introduction '''HMS ''Chub''''' (or ''Chubb'') was a British Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20.The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1807.She and her crew were lost when she was wrecked in August 1812.__TOC__
Service ''Chub'' was commissioned in March 1807 under Lieutenant Wentworth Parsons Croke. ''Chub'' may have assisted at the invasion of Martinique between January and February 1809.If so, she does not appear among the vessels whose crews qualified for the Naval General Service Medal when the Admiralty awarded it in 1847.Lieutenant William Innes replaced Croke in June 1809 (who went on to command the schooner ), and was in turn replaced by Lieutenant Samuel Nisbett in 1812.On 5 March 1812 ''Chub'' left Bermuda to search for ''Mary'', Wilson, master, which had been sailing from Tobago to London. Admiral Sawyer had received information that ''Mary'' was in great distress from leaks and trying to reach Bermuda. ''Chub'' returned two days later without having found ''Mary''. By 8 April ''Mary'' had still not arrived at Bermuda and it was feared that she had foundered. ''Chub'' captured several vessels in 1812 while on the Halifax station. On 18 July she captured the privateer ''Eliza'' and on 6 August the merchantman ''Grace''. Then on 18 July she recaptured ''Ann'', M'Donald, master, which had been sailing from Cadiz to St John's when the American privateer ''Teazer'' captured her the day before. ''Chub'' brought ''Ann'' into Liverpool.On 12 August, at dusk, ''Chub'' came under friendly fire from , which mistook ''Chubb'' for an American privateer. ''Chubb'' had earlier stopped at Liverpool, Nova Scotia and taken on board some volunteers who wanted to go a cruise with her. A chain-shot from ''Emulous'' killed two of these volunteers, Ebenezer Herrington (or Harrington), and John Scott. Herrington was buried in the Old Burying Ground in Halifax. ''Chubb'' returned the surviving volunteers to Liverpool and resumed her cruise.
Fate ''Chub'' was driven ashore on 14 August on the "Sisters" (Black Rocks) within two miles of the Sambro Island Light near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nisbett and all on board perished. She was stationed with the blockade of the American fleet at the time of sinking.
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