HMS Curlew (1795) explained

HMS Curlew was an 18-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, commissioned in June 1795 under Commander Francis Ventris Field for Admiral Duncan's fleet.

On 31 October 1796 she disappeared during a storm in the North Sea, and was presumed to have foundered with all hands.

References

• Book: Grocott, Terence . Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras . Chatham . London . 1997 . 1861760302.
• Book: Hepper . David J. . 1994 . British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859 . Jean Boudriot . Rotherfield . 0-948864-30-3.
• Book: Rif . Winfield . British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . Seaforth Publishing . 2008 . 978-1-86176-246-7.