title: HMS Viper (1807)
text: # HMS Viper (1807)
  
  HMS Viper was launched at Cowes in 1805 as the mercantile schooner Princess Charlotte. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1807. Lieutenant William Towning commissioned her. On 9 (or 18) February 1809 she sailed from Cadiz for Gibraltar. She never arrived and was presumed to have foundered with all hands.
  
  She was carrying as a passenger Robert Arbuthnot, the former Chief Secretary in Ceylon.
  
  ## Citations
  
  * 1 2 Winfield (2008), p. 371.
  * ↑ Hepper (1994), p. 128.
  * ↑ "MARINE INTELLIGENCE". 14 February 1810, Aberdeen Journal (Aberdeen, Scotland) Issue: 3240.
  