HMS Chub (1807)

HMS Chub (or Chubb) was a 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.

Service
Chub was commissioned in March 1807 under Lieutenant Wentworth 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, and was in turn replaced by Lieutenant Samuel Nisbett in 1812.

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.

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