HMS Sorlings

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Sorlings, 1789
Type: Surveying Ship ; Armament lightly
Purchased : 1789 Disposal date or year : Feb 1833
Notes:

1788 late merchant vessel Elizabeth.

3 May 1802 departed Sheerness for Harwich.

18 Oct 1802 arrived Sheerness.

{It may be of interest to note that as demonstrated here survey vessels invariably spent the summer months surveying, and then returned to harbour for the winter months, when survey work was invariably difficult to carry out due to the weather, and thus the winter months were invariably spent repairing and refitting the vessels and finalising the survey work carried out during the Summer, writing reports and drawing revised maps &c. to send off to whoever they were responsible to, which today would be the Hydrographic Office (UKHO), located at Taunton, Somerset. I understand that it was often the case that the surveyors would use all the daylight hours available in the Summer months to carry out their work, and thus they had to put map making etc., on the back burner until they returned to harbour in the Winter, unless information from a particular job was vitally important for safety reasons, when a report might be made early, in order that it could be turned into a Notice to Mariners &c. Ed.}

May 1805 Between Beachy Head and Dungeness