High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Chanticleer was a Cherokee class 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy. Chanticleer was built by Daniel List at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, where she was launched on 26 July 1808, and measured 237 tons burthen. Her initial base was Great Yarmouth. Commander Charles Harford commissioned her, but drowned on 19 October, so Commander Richard Spear took command in November.