List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy
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This is a list of frigate
classes
of the Royal Navy
of the United Kingdom
(and the individual ships composed within those classes) in chronological order from 1690. Where the word 'class' or 'group' is not shown, the vessel was a 'one-off' design with just that vessel completed to the design. The list excludes vessels captured from other navies and added to the Royal Navy.
or fourth-rate
ship of the line
. In this list, the term is restricted to fifth rates and sixth rates which did not form part of the battlefleet (i.e. were not ships of the line); many of the earliest ships described as English frigates, such as the Constant Warwick of 1645, were fourth rates and thus are not listed below.
For ships before the 1745 Establishment, the term 'class' is inappropriate as individual design was left up to the master shipwright in each Royal dockyard - the term 'group' is used as more applicable for ships built to similar specifications.
Two nominally 24-gun ships - the Lyme and Unicorn - were built in 1747-1749 with twenty-four 9-pounders on the upper deck but also carried four smaller guns on the quarter deck; the pair were designated at 24-gun ship (disregarding the smaller guns) until 1756, when they were reclassed as 28-gun frigates. However other 24-gun and 20-gun ships continued to be built, with twenty-two or twenty 9-pounder guns on the upper deck.
s, plus six or ten lesser guns mounted on the quarterdeck and/or forecastle).
The American Revolution saw the emergence of new fifth rates of 36 or 38 guns which carried a main battery of 18-pounder guns, and were thus known as "heavy" frigates, while the French Revolutionary War brought about the introduction of a few 24-pounder gun armed frigates. In the 1830s, new types emerged with a main battery of 32-pounder guns.
The following three classes were begun as sailing frigates, but all were completed as screw-driven steam frigates.
In 1887 all frigates and corvettes in the British Navy were re-categorised as 'cruisers', and the term 'frigate' was abolished, not to re-emerge until the Second World War, at which time it was resurrected to describe a totally different type of escort vessel.
Frigate
A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...
classes
Ship class
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of the Royal Navy
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(and the individual ships composed within those classes) in chronological order from 1690. Where the word 'class' or 'group' is not shown, the vessel was a 'one-off' design with just that vessel completed to the design. The list excludes vessels captured from other navies and added to the Royal Navy.
The frigate before 1690
The initial meaning of frigate in English/British naval service was a fast sailing warship, usually with a relatively low superstructure and a high length:breadth ratio - as distinct from the heavily-armed but slow "great ships" with high fore- and after-castles. The name originated at the end of the 16th century, the first "frigats" being generally small, fast-sailing craft, in particular those employed by Flemish privateers based on Dunkirk and Flushing. Subsequently the term was applied to any vessel with these characteristics, even to a third-rateThird-rate
In the British Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks . Years of experience proved that the third rate ships embodied the best compromise between sailing ability , firepower, and cost...
or fourth-rate
Fourth-rate
In the British Royal Navy, a fourth rate was, during the first half of the 18th century, a ship of the line mounting from 46 up to 60 guns. While the number of guns stayed subsequently in the same range up until 1817, after 1756 the ships of 50 guns and below were considered too weak to stand in...
ship of the line
Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...
. In this list, the term is restricted to fifth rates and sixth rates which did not form part of the battlefleet (i.e. were not ships of the line); many of the earliest ships described as English frigates, such as the Constant Warwick of 1645, were fourth rates and thus are not listed below.
The sixth rates from 1690 to 1750
Before the "true" sail frigate come into being in the 1740s, the equivalent was the single-deck cruising vessel of the sixth rate, armed with either 20, 22 or 24 guns, which established itself in the 1690s and lasted until the arrival of the new "true" frigates. Before 1714, many small sixth rates carried fewer than 20 guns, and these have been excluded from this list. For over half a century from the 1690s, the main armament of this type was the 6-pounder gun, until it was replaced by 9-pounder guns just prior to being superseded by the 28-gun sixth-rate frigate.For ships before the 1745 Establishment, the term 'class' is inappropriate as individual design was left up to the master shipwright in each Royal dockyard - the term 'group' is used as more applicable for ships built to similar specifications.
- Maidstone group 24-gun sixth rates 1693-1697
- HMS Maidstone 1693
- HMS Jersey 1694
- HMS Lizard (i) 1694
- HMS Newport 1694
- HMS Falcon 1694
- HMS Queenborough 1694
- HMS Swan 1694
- HMS Drake 1694
- HMS Solebay 1694
- HMS Seahorse 1694
- HMS Bideford 1695
- HMS Penzance 1695
- HMS Dunwich 1695
- HMS Orford 1695
- HMS Lizard (ii) 1697
- HMS Flamborough 1697
- HMS Seaford 1697
- HMS Deal Castle 1697
- HMS Seaford 24-gun sixth rate purchased 1695
- HMS Peregrine Galley 20-gun sixth rate 1700
- Nightingale group 24-gun sixth rates 1702-1704
- HMS Nightingale 1702
- HMS Squirrel (i) 1703
- HMS Squirrel (ii) 1704
- Aldborough group 24-gun sixth rates purchased 1706
- HMS Aldborough 1706
- HMS Nightingale 1707
- HMS Deal Castle 1706
- Flamborough group 24-gun sixth rates 1707
- HMS Flamborough 1707
- HMS Squirrel 1707
- Gibraltar group 20-gun sixth rates 1711-1716
- HMS Solebay 1711
- HMS Gibraltar 1711
- HMS Port Mahon 1711
- HMS Blandford 1711
- HMS Hind 1712
- HMS Seahorse 1712
- HMS Rose 1712
- HMS Bideford 1712
- HMS Success 1712
- HMS Greyhound 1712
- HMS Lively 1713
- HMS Speedwell 1716
- HMS Dursley Galley 20-gun sixth rate 1719
- 1719 Establishment group 20-gun sixth rates 1720-1728
- HMS Lyme 1720
- HMS Greyhound 1720
- HMS Blandford 1720
- HMS Shoreham 1720
- HMS Scarborough 1722
- HMS Garland 1724
- HMS Seaford 1724
- HMS Lowestoffe 1723
- HMS Rose 1724
- HMS Deal Castle 1727
- HMS Fox 1727
- HMS Gibraltar 1727
- HMS Bideford 1727
- HMS Seahorse 1727
- HMS Squirrel 1727
- HMS Aldborough 1727
- HMS Flamborough 1727
- HMS Experiment 1727
- HMS Rye 1727
- HMS Phoenix 1728
- Modified 1719 Establishment group 20-gun sixth rates 1732
- HMS Sheerness 1732
- HMS Dolphin 1732
- 1733 Establishment group 20-gun sixth rates 1734-1742
- HMS Tartar 1734
- HMS Kennington 1736
- HMS Fox 1740
- HMS Winchelsea 1740
- HMS Lyme 1740
- HMS Rye 1740
- HMS Experiment 1740
- HMS Lively 1740
- HMS Port Mahon 1740
- HMS Scarborough 1740
- HMS Success 1740
- HMS Rose 1740
- HMS Bideford 1740
- HMS Bridgewater 1740
- HMS Seaford 1741
- HMS Solebay 1742
- HMS WagerHMS Wager (1739)HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. She was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India before being purchased by the Royal Navy in 1739. She formed part of a squadron under Anson and was wrecked on the south coast of Chile on 14 May 1741...
28-gun sixth rate purchased 1739 - Modified 1733 Establishment group 20-gun sixth rates 1741
- HMS Greyhound 1741
- HMS Blandford 1741
- 1741 Establishment group 20-gun sixth rates 1742-1746
- HMS Lowestoffe 1742
- HMS Aldborough 1743
- HMS Alderney 1743
- HMS Phoenix 1743
- HMS SheernessHMS Sheerness (1743)HMS Sheerness was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1744. She captured the Jacobite Le Prince Charles on 26 March 1746 in the Kyle of Tongue. She later captured the French Auguste off Spain on 18 August 1756.She was sold in 1768....
1743 - HMS Wager 1744
- HMS Shreham 1744
- HMS Bridgewater 1744
- HMS Glasgow 1745
- HMS Triton 1745
- HMS Mercury 1745
- HMS Surprise 1746
- HMS Siren 1745
- HMS Fox 1746
- HMS Rye 1746
- Modified 1741 Establishment group 20-gun sixth rates 1746. Note that these two ships had no lower deck gunports, and were thus forerunners of the 'true' frigates like the Lyme and Unicorn of 1748.
- HMS Centaur 1746
- HMS Deal Castle 1746
- HMS Nightingale 22-gun sixth rate 1746
- HMS Garland 20-gun sixth rate 1748
- 1745 Establishment group 24-gun sixth rates 1746-1751
- HMS Arundel 1746
- HMS Queenborough 1747
- HMS Fowey 1749
- HMS Hind 1749
- HMS Sphinx 1748
- HMS DolphinHMS Dolphin (1751)HMS Dolphin was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1751, she was used as a survey ship from 1764 and made two circumnavigations of the world under the successive commands of John Byron and Samuel Wallis. She was the first ship to circumnavigate the world twice...
1751
- Modified 1745 Establishment group 24-gun sixth rate 1748
- HMS Boston 1748
- HMS SeahorseHMS Seahorse (1748)HMS Seahorse was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, famous as the ship on which a young Horatio Nelson served as a midshipman.-Construction and commissioning:...
24-gun sixth rate 1748 - HMS MermaidHMS Mermaid (1749)HMS Mermaid was a 24-gun sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1748-49, which served in the Seven Years War.-Construction and commissioning:...
24-gun sixth rate 1749
Two nominally 24-gun ships - the Lyme and Unicorn - were built in 1747-1749 with twenty-four 9-pounders on the upper deck but also carried four smaller guns on the quarter deck; the pair were designated at 24-gun ship (disregarding the smaller guns) until 1756, when they were reclassed as 28-gun frigates. However other 24-gun and 20-gun ships continued to be built, with twenty-two or twenty 9-pounder guns on the upper deck.
- Lyme classLyme class frigateThe Lyme class were a class of two 24-gun sixth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. They served during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War....
28-gun sixth rates 1748- HMS LymeHMS Lyme (1748)HMS Lyme was a 28-gun, sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Originally ordered as a 24 gun ship to the draft of the French privateer Tyger. The sixth vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name, the Lyme, as well as the , which was a near-sister, were the first true frigates built for the Royal Navy...
1748 - HMS UnicornHMS Unicorn (1748)HMS Unicorn was a 28-gun Lyme-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally ordered as a 24-gun ship to the draft of the French privateer Tyger. The third vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name, the Unicorn, as well as which was a near-sister, were the first true frigates built...
1748
- HMS Lyme
Sail frigates from 1750 – by class
Following the success of the Lyme and Unicorn in 1748, the mid-century period saw the simultaneous introduction in 1756 both of sixth-rate frigates of 28 guns (with a main battery of twenty-four 9-pounder guns, plus four lesser guns mounted on the quarterdeck and/or forecastle) and of fifth-rate frigates of 32 or 36 guns (with a main battery of twenty-six 12-pounder gun12-pounder gun
12-pounder gun or 12-pdr, usually denotes a gun which fired a projectile of approximately 12 pounds.Guns of this type include:* A cannon sized for a 12 pound ball, see Naval artillery in the Age of Sail*Canon de 12 de Vallière French canon of 1732...
s, plus six or ten lesser guns mounted on the quarterdeck and/or forecastle).
The American Revolution saw the emergence of new fifth rates of 36 or 38 guns which carried a main battery of 18-pounder guns, and were thus known as "heavy" frigates, while the French Revolutionary War brought about the introduction of a few 24-pounder gun armed frigates. In the 1830s, new types emerged with a main battery of 32-pounder guns.
9-pounder armed frigates (from 1750)
- Lowestoffe class 28-gun sixth rates 1756
- HMS LowestoffeHMS Lowestoffe (1756)HMS Lowestoffe was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was designed by Sir Thomas Slade based on the earlier Lyme of 1748, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns." The design provided for a 24-gun ship...
1756 - HMS TartarHMS Tartar (1756)HMS Tartar was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was designed by Sir Thomas Slade and based on the Lyme of 1748, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns."...
1756
- HMS Lowestoffe
- Coventry classCoventry class frigateThese 28-gun sailing frigates of the sixth rate were designed in 1756 by Sir Thomas Slade "to the draught of the Tartar with such alterations withinboard as may be judged necessary"...
28-gun sixth rates 1757-85- HMS LizardHMS Lizard (1757)HMS Lizard was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1757 - HMS CoventryHMS Coventry (1757)HMS Coventry was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was designed by Sir Thomas Slade "to the draught of the Tartar with such alterations withinboard as may be judged necessary", making her a further development of the Lyme...
1757 - HMS LiverpoolHMS Liverpool (1758)HMS Liverpool was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1758. She served during the American Revolution and was wrecked in 1778 off Long Island.-Construction:...
1758 - HMS MaidstoneHMS Maidstone (1758)HMS Maidstone was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1758 - HMS BoreasHMS Boreas (1757)HMS Boreas was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Built in 1757, she was one of five frigates of the class built of fir rather than oak...
1757 - built of fir instead of oak - HMS HussarHMS Hussar (1757)HMS Hussar was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-Construction:The Hussar was one of five frigates of the class built of fir rather than oak...
1757 - built of fir instead of oak - HMS ShannonHMS Shannon (1757)HMS Shannon was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-Construction:The Shannon was one of five frigates of the class built of fir rather than oak...
1757 - built of fir instead of oak - HMS TrentHMS Trent (1757)HMS Trent was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-Construction:The Trent was one of five frigates of the class built of fir rather than oak...
1757 - built of fir instead of oak - HMS ActaeonHMS Actaeon (1757)HMS Actaeon was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-Construction:The Actaeon was one of five frigates of the class built of fir rather than oak...
1757 - built of fir instead of oak - HMS ActiveHMS Active (1758)HMS Active was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1758 - HMS LevantHMS Levant (1758)HMS Levant was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1758 - HMS CerberusHMS Cerberus (1758)HMS Cerberus was a 28 gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.She was ordered on 6 May 1757 from the yards of Pleasant Fenn, East Cowes and was laid down on 13 June 1757. She was launched just over a year later on 5 September 1758. The ship was the target of an early torpedo attack by David...
1758 - HMS AquilonHMS Aquilon (1758)HMS Aquilon was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1758 - HMS GriffinHMS Griffin (1758)HMS Griffin was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1758 - HMS ArgoHMS Argo (1758)HMS Argo was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was one of the Coventry class, designed by Sir Thomas Slade as a development of based on the Lyme, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns."She served during the Seven Years War, at...
1758 - HMS MilfordHMS Milford (1759)HMS Milford was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1759 - HMS Guadeloupe 1763
- HMS CarysfortHMS Carysfort (1766)HMS Carysfort was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in a career that spanned over forty years....
1766 - HMS HindHMS Hind (1785)HMS Hind was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was a revival of the Coventry class, designed in 1756 by Sir Thomas Slade as a development of his of 1748, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns." The design was slightly modified...
1785 - HMS Laurel - cancelled 1783.
- HMS Lizard
- Mermaid classMermaid class frigateThe Mermaid class frigate were a group of six 28-gun sailing frigates of the sixth rate designed in 1760 by Sir Thomas Slade, based on the scaled-down lines of HMS Aurora ....
28-gun sixth rates 1761-63- HMS MermaidHMS Mermaid (1761)HMS Mermaid was a sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in April 1761 under Captain George Watson.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1761 - HMS HussarHMS Hussar (1763)HMS Hussar was a sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in England in 1761-63. She was a 28-gun ship of the Mermaid class, designed by Sir Thomas Slade....
1763 - HMS SolebayHMS Solebay (1763)HMS Solebay was a sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in August 1763 under Captain William Hay.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1763
- HMS Mermaid
- Modified Mermaid classMermaid class frigateThe Mermaid class frigate were a group of six 28-gun sailing frigates of the sixth rate designed in 1760 by Sir Thomas Slade, based on the scaled-down lines of HMS Aurora ....
28-gun sixth rates 1773-74- HMS GreyhoundHMS Greyhound (1773)HMS Greyhound was a Modified sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in October 1775 under Captain Archibald Dickson.-References:...
1773 - HMS TritonHMS Triton (1773)HMS Triton was a Modified sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in August 1775 under Captain Skeffington Ludwidge.-References:...
1773 - HMS BoreasHMS Boreas (1774)HMS Boreas was a Modified sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in August 1775 under Captain Charles Thompson.-References:* Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9....
1774
- HMS Greyhound
- Enterprise classEnterprise class frigateThe Enterprise-class frigates were the final class of 28-gun sailing frigates of the sixth-rate to be produced for the Royal Navy. These twenty-seven vessels were designed in 1770 by John Williams. A first batch of five ships were ordered as part of the programme sparked by the Falklands Islands...
28-gun sixth rates 1773-87- HMS SirenHMS Siren (1773)HMS Siren was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy...
1773 - HMS FoxHMS Fox (1773)HMS Fox was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Fox was first commissioned in October 1775 under the command of Captain Patrick Fotheringham.-Fate:...
1773 - HMS SurpriseHMS Surprise (1774)HMS Surprise was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Surprise was first commissioned in February 1775 under the command of Captain Robert Linzee.- References :...
1774 - HMS Enterprise 1774
- HMS ActaeonHMS Actaeon (1775)HMS Actaeon was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Actaeon was first commissioned in June 1775 under the command of Captain Christopher Atkins.- References :...
1775 - HMS ProserpineHMS Proserpine (1777)HMS Proserpine was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Proserpine was first commissioned in July 1777 under the command of Captain Evelyn Sutton.- References :...
1777 - HMS MedeaHMS Medea (1778)HMS Medea was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Medea was first commissioned in May 1778 under the command of Captain William Cornwallis.- References :...
1778 - HMS AndromedaHMS Andromeda (1777)HMS Andromeda was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Andromeda was first commissioned in September 1777 under the command of Captain Henry Byrne.- References :...
1777 - HMS AuroraHMS Aurora (1777)HMS Aurora was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Aurora was first commissioned in July 1777 under the command of Captain James Cumming...
1777 - HMS SibylHMS Sibyl (1779)HMS Sibyl was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Sibyl was first commissioned in October 1778 under the command of Captain Thomas Pasley.- References :...
1779 - HMS BrilliantHMS Brilliant (1779)HMS Brilliant was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Brilliant was first commissioned in July 1779 under the command of Captain John Ford....
1779 - HMS PomonaHMS Pomona (1778)HMS Pomona was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Pomona was first commissioned in September 1778 under the command of Captain William Waldegrave....
1778 - HMS CrescentHMS Crescent (1779)HMS Crescent was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Crescent was first commissioned in about September 1779 under the command of Captain Charles Hope.- References :...
1779 - HMS NemesisHMS Nemesis (1780)HMS Nemesis was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Nemesis was first commissioned in January 1780 under the command of Captain Richard Bligh.- References :...
1780 - HMS ResourceHMS Resource (1778)HMS Resource was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Resource was first commissioned in July 1778 under the command of Captain Patrick Fotheringham.- References :...
1778 - HMS MercuryHMS Mercury (1779)HMS Mercury was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built during the American War of Independence and serving during the later years of that conflict...
1779 - HMS Pegasus 1779
- HMS CyclopsHMS Cyclops (1779)HMS Cyclops was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Cyclops was first commissioned in July 1779 under the command of Captain John Robinson.- References :...
1779 - HMS VestalHMS Vestal (1779)HMS Vestal was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Vestal was first commissioned in November 1779 under the command of Captain George Keppel.- References :...
1779 - HMS LaurelHMS Laurel (1779)HMS Laurel was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Laurel was first commissioned in October 1779 under the command of Captain Thomas Lloyd...
1779 - HMS ThisbeHMS Thisbe (1783)HMS Thisbe was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Thisbe first was commissioned in December 1787 under the command of Captain George Robinson.- References :...
1783 - HMS CirceHMS Circe (1785)HMS Circe was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1785 but not completed or commissioned until 1790...
1785 - HMS RoseHMS Rose (1783)HMS Rose was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Rose was first commissioned in August 1783 under the command of Captain James Hawkins.-Fate:...
1783 - HMS HussarHMS Hussar (1784)HMS Hussar was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Hussar was first commissioned in May 1790 under the command of Captain Eliab Harvey.- References :...
1784 - HMS AlligatorHMS Alligator (1787)HMS Alligator was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally ordered during the American War of Independence but was completed too late to see service during the conflict...
1787 - HMS DidoHMS Dido (1784)HMS Dido was one of the twenty-seven Enterprise class of 28-gunsixth-rate frigates in service with the Royal Navy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dido was commissioned in September 1787 under the command of Captain Charles Sandys...
1784 - HMS LapwingHMS Lapwing (1785)HMS Lapwing was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Lapwing was first commissioned in October 1790 under the command of Captain Paget Bayley.- References :...
1785
- HMS Siren
12-pounder armed frigates
Almost all of the following were 32-gun type (armed with 26 x 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 6 smaller guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle); one class (the Venus class of 1757-58) had 36 guns (with 26 x 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 10 smaller guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle).- Southampton classSouthampton class frigateThe Southampton-class frigates were 32-gun sailing frigates of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy. They were designed in 1756 by Sir Thomas Slade, and were the first 'true' fifth-rate frigates produced to the new single-deck concept...
32-gun fifth rates 1757- HMS SouthamptonHMS Southampton (1757)HMS Southampton was the name ship of the 32-gun Southampton-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served for more than half a century until wrecked in 1812.- Fate :...
1757-59 - HMS MinervaHMS Minerva (1759)HMS Minerva was one of the four 32-gun Southampton-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1759 and served through the American Revolutionary War before being broken up in 1784.- References :...
1759 - HMS VestalHMS Vestal (1757)HMS Vestal was one of the four 32-gun Southampton-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and was broken up in 1775.- References :...
1757 - HMS DianaHMS Diana (1757)HMS Diana was one of the four 32-gun Southampton-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served through the American Revolutionary War before being broken up in 1793.- References :...
1757
- HMS Southampton
- Richmond classRichmond class frigateThe Richmond-class frigates were 32-gun sailing frigates of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy. They were designed in 1756 by the Navy's Surveyor, William Bately, and were his equivalent of the s designed by Bately's co-Surveyor, Thomas Slade. They were faster ships than the Southamptons,...
32-gun fifth rates 1757-58 (batch 1), 1762-63 (batch 2)- HMS RichmondHMS Richmond (1757)HMS Richmond was the name ship of the 32-gun Richmond-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served throughout the American Revolutionary War until captured by the French in 1781.- References :...
1757 - HMS JunoHMS Juno (1757)HMS Juno was a 32-gun Richmond-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served throughout the American Revolutionary War until scuttled in 1778 to avoid capture.- References :...
1757 - HMS ThamesHMS Thames (1758)HMS Thames was a 32-gun Richmond-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built by Henry Adams and launched at Bucklers Hard in 1758. She served in several wars, including for some four years in French service after her capture. She was recaptured in 1796 and was broken up in 1803.-British...
1758 - HMS LarkHMS Lark (1762)HMS Lark was a 32-gun Richmond-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1762 and destroyed 1778 during the American Revolutionary War, in Narragansett Bay...
1762 - HMS BostonHMS Boston (1762)HMS Boston was a 32-gun Richmond-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1762 and serveded 1778 during the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War.- References :...
1762 - HMS JasonHMS Jason (1763)HMS Jason was a 32-gun Richmond-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1763 and served throughout the American Revolutionary War.- References :...
1763
- HMS Richmond
- Venus classVenus class frigateThe Venus-class frigates were three 36-gun sailing frigates of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy. They were designed in 1756 by Sir Thomas Slade, and were enlarged from his design for the 32-gun Southampton-class frigates, which had been approved four months earlier.The 36-gun frigates, of...
36-gun fifth rates 1757-58- HMS PallasHMS Pallas (1757)HMS Pallas was one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served until her loss in 1783.- References :...
1757 - HMS VenusHMS Venus (1758)HMS Venus was the name ship of the 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1758 and served for more than half a century until paid off in 1809, although she was reduced from 36 guns to 32 guns in 1792....
1758 - HMS BrilliantHMS Brilliant (1757)HMS Brilliant was one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served until sold in 1776.- References :...
1757
- HMS Pallas
- Niger classNiger class frigateThe Niger-class frigates were 32-gun sailing frigates of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy. They were designed in 1757 by Sir Thomas Slade, and were an improvement on his 1756 design for the 32-gun s....
32-gun fifth rates 1758-66- HMS StagHMS Stag (1758)HMS Stag was a 32-gun Niger-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, and was the first Royal Navy ship to bear this name. She was ordered during the Seven Years' War, and saw service during that conflict and also during the American War of Independence...
1758 - HMS AlarmHMS Alarm (1758)HMS Alarm was a 32-gun fifth rate Niger-class frigate of the Royal Navy, and was the first Royal Navy ship to bear this name. Copper-sheathed in 1761, she was the first ship in the Royal Navy to have a fully copper-sheathed hull....
1758 - HMS Aeolus 1758
- HMS Niger 1759
- HMS MontrealHMS Montreal (1761)HMS Montreal was a 32-gun Niger-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1761 and served in the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence. The French captured her in 1779 and she then served with them under the name Montréal...
1761 - HMS Quebec 1760
- HMS Pearl 1762
- HMS Emerald 1762
- HMS WinchelseaHMS Winchelsea (1764)HMS Winchelsea was a 32-gun fifth-rate Niger-class frigate of the Royal Navy, and was the sixth Royal Navy ship to bear this name . She was ordered during the Seven Years War, but completed too late for that conflict...
1764 - HMS Glory 1763
- HMS Aurora 1766
- HMS Stag
- HMS TweedHMS Tweed (1759)HMS Tweed was a 32-gun sailing frigate of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy. She was designed in 1757 by Sir Thomas Slade, based on the lines of the smaller sixth rate HMS Tartar, but with a 10-foot midsection inserted....
32-gun fifth rate 1759 - HMS LowestoffeHMS Lowestoffe (1761)HMS Lowestoffe was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Built during the latter part of the Seven Years' War, she went on to see action in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary War, and served often in the Caribbean...
32-gun fifth rate 1761 - Modified Lowestoffe class 32-gun fifth rates 1773-74
- HMS OrpheusHMS Orpheus (1773)HMS Orpheus was a British Modified Lowestoffe-class fifth-rate frigate, ordered on 25 December 1770 as one of five fifth-rate frigates of 32 guns each contained in the emergency frigate-building programme inaugurated when the likelihood of war with Spain arose over the ownership of the Falkland...
1773 - HMS DiamondHMS Diamond (1774)The fourth HMS Diamond was a Modified Lowestoffe-class fifth-rate frigate, ordered on 25 December 1770 as one of five fifth-rate frigates of 32 guns each contained in the emergency frigate-building programme inaugurated when the likelihood of war with Spain arose over the ownership of the Falkland...
1774
- HMS Orpheus
- Amazon class 32-gun fifth rates 1773-87
- HMS Thetis 1773
- HMS Amazon 1773
- HMS AmbuscadeHMS Ambuscade (1773)HMS Ambuscade was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built at Depford in 1773.During the Revolutionary wars, as she blockaded Rochefort, she was captured in the Action of 14 December 1798 and brought in French service as Embuscade....
1773 - HMS CleopatraHMS Cleopatra (1779)HMS Cleopatra was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had a long career, seeing service during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the latter wars she fought two notable engagements with larger French opponents...
1779 - HMS AmphionHMS Amphion (1780)HMS Amphion was a Royal Navy 32-gun fifth-rate ship built in Chatham in 1780 that blew up on 22 September 1796.-Service:On 10 September 1781, a small squadron under the command of the Amphion's captain John Bazely, in conjunction with General Benedict Arnold, completely destroyed the town of New...
1780 - HMS Orpheus 1780
- HMS JunoHMS Juno (1780)HMS Juno was a Royal Navy 32-gun Amazon-class fifth rate. This frigate served during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.-Construction and commissioning:...
1780 - HMS Success 1781
- HMS Iphigenia 1780
- HMS Andromache 1781
- HMS SyrenHMS Syren (1782)HMS Syren was a frigate in the 18th century Royal Navy. Among her more famous midshipmen were the future Rear Admiral Peter Puget and John Pasco, Nelson's signal officer at the Battle of Trafalgar....
1782 - HMS Iris 1783
- HMS Greyhound 1783
- HMS MeleagerHMS Meleager (1785)HMS Meleager was a 32 gun frigate built in 1785 by Greaves and Nickolson at the Quarry House yard in Frindsbury, Kent, England. She was named after Meleager, who could have been a Macedonian officer of distinction in the service of Alexander the Great, or Meleager, a character from Greek...
1785 - HMS CastorHMS Castor (1785)HMS Castor was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The French briefly captured her during the Atlantic Campaign of May 1794 but she spent just 20 days in French hands as a British ship retook her before her...
1785 - HMS Solebay 1785
- HMS TerpsichoreHMS Terpsichore (1785)HMS Terpsichore was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built during the last years of the American War of Independence, but did not see action until the French Revolutionary Wars...
1785 - HMS Blonde 1787
- Active class 32-gun fifth rates 1779-84
- HMS DaedalusHMS Daedalus (1780)HMS Daedalus was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1780 from the yards of John Fisher, of Liverpool. She went on to serve in the American War of Independence, as well as the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars....
1780 - HMS Mermaid 1784
- HMS Cerberus 1779
- HMS FoxHMS Fox (1780)HMS Fox was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 2 June 1780 at Bursledon, Hampshire by George Parsons.She was broken up in April 1816....
1780 - HMS Active 1780
- HMS Astraea 1781
- HMS Ceres 1781
- HMS Quebec 1781
- HMS Daedalus
- Andromeda or Hermione class 32-gun fifth rates 1782
- HMS HermioneHMS Hermione (1782)HMS Hermione was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was notorious for having the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw her captain and most of the officers killed...
1782 - HMS DruidHMS Druid (1783)HMS Druid was a 32-gun Hermione-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1783 at Bristol. She served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, capturing numerous small prizes. One of her commanders, Captain Phillip Broke, described Druid as a "point of honour ship",...
1783 - HMS Andromeda 1784
- HMS Penelope 1783
- HMS Aquilon 1786
- HMS BlancheHMS Blanche (1786)HMS Blanche was a 32-gun Hermione-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was ordered towards the end of the American War of Independence, but only briefly saw service before the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793. She enjoyed a number of successful cruises against privateers...
1786
- HMS Hermione
- HMS Heroine 32-gun fifth rate 1783
- Maidstone class 32-gun fifth rates 1795-96
- HMS Maidstone 1795
- HMS Shannon 1796
- HMS Triton 32-gun fifth rate 1796
- Circe class 32-gun fifth rates 1804
- HMS PallasHMS Pallas (1804)HMS Pallas was a 32-gun fifth rate Thames-class frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1804 at Plymouth.-History:Pallas was one of the seven Thames class frigates ordered for the fleet in early 1804. Her keel was laid at Plymouth Dockyard in June 1804 and she was launched on the afternoon of 17...
1804 - HMS CirceHMS Circe (1804)HMS Circe was a Royal Navy 32-gun fifth-rate Thames-class frigate, built by Master Shipwright Joseph Tucker at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched in 1804. She served in the Caribbean during the Napoleonic Wars, and participated in an action and a campaign for which in 1847 in the Admiralty authorized...
1804 - HMS Thames 1805
- HMS JasonHMS Jason (1804)HMS Jason was a 32-gun fifth rate Thames-class frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1804 at Woolwich, named for Jason of Greek Mythology.-Service:...
1804 - HMS Hebe 1804
- HMS Minerva 1805
- HMS Alexandria 1806
- HMS Medea - cancelled 1804.
- HMS Pallas
18-pounder armed frigates
In general, the following were either 36-gun type (armed with 26 x 18-pounder guns on the upper deck and 10 smaller guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle) or 38-gun type (with 28 x 18-pounder guns on the upper deck and 10 smaller guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle); however, some classes of smaller ships had just 32 guns (with 26 x 18-pounder guns on the upper deck and just 6 smaller guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle).- Flora class 36-gun fifth rates 1780
- HMS Flora 1780
- HMS Thalia 1782
- HMS Crescent 1784
- HMS Romulus 1785
- Minerva classMinerva class frigateThe Minerva class sailing frigates were a series of four ships built to a 1778 design by Sir Edward Hunt, which served in the Royal Navy during the latter decades of the eighteenth century....
38-gun fifth rates 1780- HMS MinervaHMS Minerva (1780)HMS Minerva was a 38-gun fifth-rate Royal Navy frigate. The first of four Minerva-class frigates, she was launched on 3 June 1780, and commissioned soon thereafter. In 1798 she was renamed Pallas and employed as a troopship...
1780 - HMS ArethusaHMS Arethusa (1781)HMS Arethusa was a 38-gun Minerva-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built at Bristol in 1781.She took part in the Action of 23 April 1794, capturing Pomone....
1781 - HMS Phaeton 1782
- HMS ThetisHMS Thetis (1782)HMS Thetis was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1782. In 1795 she captured the French storeships Prevoyante and Raison; and in 1801 took part in Lord Keith's expedition to Egypt; in 1809 assisted in cutting out the French 16-gun man-of-war Nisus at Guadeloupe, and took part...
1782
- HMS Minerva
- HMS LatonaHMS Latona (1779)HMS Latona was a 38-gun, 18-pounder gun armed fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was designed by the senior surveyor John Williams. In this era it was common for each surveyor to produce independent designs for new ship types, and this design was a counterpoint to Edward Hunt's HMS Minerva;...
38-gun fifth rate 1781 - Perseverance class 36-gun fifth rates 1781-83
- HMS Perseverance 1781
- HMS PhoenixHMS Phoenix (1783)HMS Phoenix was a 36-gun Perseverance-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The shipbuilder George Parsons built her at Bursledon and launched her on 15 July 1783. She served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was instrumental in the events leading up to the battle of Trafalgar...
1783 - HMS InconstantHMS Inconstant (1783)HMS Inconstant was a 36-gun Perseverance class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had a successful career serving in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, capturing three French warships during the French Revolutionary naval campaigns, the Curieux, the Unité, and the former British...
1783 - HMS Leda 1783
- HMS MelampusHMS MelampusSix ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Melampus after the legengary Greek soothsayer Melampus.# HMS Melampus was a fifth rate frigate captured in 1757 and sold soon afterwards....
36-gun fifth rate 1785 - HMS Beaulieu 40-gun fifth rate 1791
- Pallas classPallas class frigateThe Pallas class sailing frigates were a series of three ships built to a 1791 design by John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars....
32-gun fifth rates 1793-94- HMS Stag 1794
- HMS UnicornHMS Unicorn (1794)HMS Unicorn was a 32-gun fifth-rate Pallas-class frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Chatham. This frigate served in both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, including a medal action early in her career...
1794 - HMS Pallas 1793
- Artois class 38-gun fifth rates 1794-97
- HMS Artois 1794
- HMS DianaHMS Diana (1794)HMS Diana was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1794.On 7 March 1815 HMS Diana was sold to the Dutch navy for £36,796...
1794 - HMS ApolloHMS Apollo (1794)HMS Apollo, the third ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of 38 guns launched in 1794 and wrecked in 1799....
1794 - HMS Diamond 1794
- HMS JasonHMS Jason (1794)HMS Jason was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary Wars, but her career came to an end after just four years in service when she struck an uncharted rock off Brest and sank on 13 October 1798...
1794 - HMS Seahorse 1794
- HMS Tamar 1796
- HMS Clyde 1796
- HMS EthalionHMS Ethalion (1797)HMS Ethalion was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Joseph Graham of Harwich and launched on 14 March 1797...
1797
- Alcmene class 32-gun fifth rates 1794
- HMS Galatea 1794
- HMS CerberusHMS Cerberus (1794)HMS Cerberus was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in the Channel, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, and even briefly in the Baltic against the Russians. She participated in one boat action that won for her crew a clasp to...
1794 - HMS Lively 1794
- HMS AlcmeneHMS Alcmene (1794)HMS Alcmene was a 32-gun Alcmene-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. This frigate served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars under the command of several notable officers. Alcmene was active in several theatres of the war, spending most of her time cruising in search of enemy...
1794
- Phoebe class 36-gun fifth rates 1795-1800
- HMS DryadHMS Dryad (1795)HMS Dryad was a fifth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy that served for 64 years, at first during the Napoleonic Wars and then in the suppression of slavery. She fought in a notable single-ship action in 1805 when she captured the Proserpine, an action that would later earn her crew the Naval...
1795 - HMS Caroline 1795
- HMS DorisHMS Doris (1795)HMS Doris was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, which saw service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Doris was built by Cleveley, of Gravesend and was launched on 31 August 1795. She entered service in November 1795, operating as part of the Channel Fleet during the...
1795 - HMS PhoebeHMS Phoebe (1795)HMS Phoebe was a 36-gun fifth rate of the British Royal Navy. She had a career of almost twenty years and fought in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812...
1795 - HMS Fortunee 1800
- HMS Dryad
- Amazon class 36-gun fifth rates 1795-96
- HMS AmazonHMS Amazon (1795)HMS Amazon, was a 36-gun frigate, built at Rotherhithe by Wells & Co. in 1795 to a design by Sir William Rule. She was the first of a class of four frigates....
1795 - HMS Emerald 1795
- HMS Trent 1796
- HMS Glenmore 1796
- HMS Amazon
- HMS AcastaHMS Acasta (1797)HMS Acasta was a 40-gun Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate. She saw service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as the War of 1812. Although she never took part in any notable single-ship actions nor saw action in a major battle though she was at the Battle of San Domingo, she...
40-gun fifth rate 1797 - HMS BoadiceaHMS Boadicea (1797)HMS Boadicea was a frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the Channel and in the East Indies during which service she captured many prizes. She participated in one action for which the Admiralty would award the Naval General Service Medal...
38-gun fifth rate 1797 - HMS SiriusHMS Sirius (1797)HMS Sirius was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Between 1797 and 1805, the Sirius was engaged in maintaining the blockade of Napoleonic Europe...
36-gun fifth rate 1797 - HMS HydraHMS Hydra (1797)HMS Hydra launched in 1797 was a fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, armed with a main battery of twenty-eight 18-pounder guns.She was built to the design of the captured French frigate Melpomene .-Service:...
38-gun fifth rate 1797 - Amazon class 38-gun fifth rates 1799
- HMS AmazonHMS Amazon (1799)HMS Amazon was a 38-gun Amazon-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. This frigate served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars under several notable naval commanders and played a key role in the Battle of Copenhagen under Captain Edward Riou, when Riou commanded the frigate squadron...
1799 - HMS Hussar 1799
- HMS Amazon
- HMS ActiveHMS Active (1799)HMS Active was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate launched on 14 December 1799 at Chatham Dockyard. Sir John Henslow designed her as an improvement on the Artois-class frigates. She served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, capturing numerous enemy vessels...
38-gun fifth rate 1799 - Leda classHMS Leda (1800)HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. Ledas design was based on the French frigate Hébé, which the British had captured in 1782. HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of...
38-gun fifth rates 1800-19- HMS LedaHMS Leda (1800)HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. Ledas design was based on the French frigate Hébé, which the British had captured in 1782. HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of...
1800 - HMS Pomone 1805
- HMS ShannonHMS Shannon (1806)HMS Shannon was a 38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812...
1806 - HMS Leonidas 1807
- HMS Briton 1812
- HMS Tenedos 1812
- HMS Lacedemonian 1812
- HMS Lively 1813
- HMS SurpriseHMS Surprise (1812)HMS Surprise was a 38-gun frigate of the Leda class of the Royal Navy, although all these fifth-rate frigates were re-classed as 46-gun under the general re-rating of February 1817, from when carronades on the quarter deck and forecastle were included in the rating...
1812 - HMS Diamond 1816
- HMS Amphitrite 1816
- HMS TrincomaleeHMS TrincomaleeHMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly following the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, UK.-History:...
1817 - HMS Thetis 1817
- HMS Arethusa 1817
- HMS Blanche 1819
- HMS FisgardHMS Fisgard (1819)HMS Fisgard was a 46-gun fifth rate Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She spent sixty years in service on a variety of duties.-Construction and commissioning:...
1819
- HMS Leda
- Penelope class 36-gun fifth rates 1798-1800
- HMS PenelopeHMS Penelope (1798)HMS Penelope was a fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1798 and wrecked in 1815.Under Sir Henry Blackwood, she took part in the battle of 30 March 1800 against the Guillaume Tell. Penelope was credited for engaging and dismantling the masts of Guillaume Tell with two raking broadsides...
1798 - HMS AmethystHMS Amethyst (1799)HMS Amethyst was a Royal Navy 36-gun Penelope-class fifth-rate frigate, launched in 1799 at Deptford. Amethyst served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, capturing several prizes. She also participated in two boat actions and two ship actions that won her crew clasps to the...
1799 - HMS Jason 1800
- HMS Penelope
- HMS Lavinia 40-gun fifth rate 1806
- Amphion class 32-gun fifth rates 1798-1809
- HMS AmphionHMS Amphion (1798)HMS Amphion was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the Napoleonic Wars.Amphion was built by Betts, of Mistleythorn, and was launched on 19 March 1798....
1798 - HMS AeolusHMS Aeolus (1801)HMS Aeolus was a 32-gun Amphion-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1801 and served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812....
1801 - HMS MedusaHMS Medusa (1801)HMS Medusa was a 38-gun 5th rate frigate of the Royal Navy that served in the Napoleonic Wars. Launched on 14 April 1801, she took part in the Action of 5 October 1804 against a Spanish squadron, in the River Plate Expedition in 1807, and made several captures of enemy ships, before being converted...
1801 - HMS Proserpine 1807
- HMS Nereus 1809
- HMS Amphion
- Narcissus class 32-gun fifth rates 1801-1808
- HMS Narcissus 1801
- HMS TartarHMS Tartar (1801)HMS Tartar was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built at Frindsbury and launched in 1801. She captured privateers on the Jamaica station and fought in the Gunboat War and elsewhere in the Baltic before being lost to grounding off Estonia in 1811.-Jamaica station:Captain James Walker...
1801 - HMS CorneliaHMS Cornelia (1808)HMS Cornelia was a Royal Navy 32-gun fifth-rate frigate, launched in 1808 at South Shields.Cornelia joined the service in 1808, under the command of Captain Henry Folkes Edgell and in 1810 was deployed to the squadron at the Cape of Good Hope...
1808 - HMS Siren - cancelled 1806
- HMS Doris - cancelled 1806
- Apollo classApollo class frigateThe Apollo-class sailing frigates were a series of twenty-seven ships that the British Admiralty commissioned be built to a 1798 design by Sir William Rule. Twenty-five served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, two being launched too late....
36-gun fifth rates, 27 ships, 1799–1819- HMS ApolloHMS Apollo (1799)HMS Apollo, the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of a nominal 36 guns. She was the name ship of the s...
1799 - HMS Blanche 1800
- HMS EuryalusHMS Euryalus (1803)HMS Euryalus was a Royal Navy Apollo Class frigate of 36 guns, which saw service in the Battle of Trafalgar and the War of 1812. During her career she was commanded by three prominent naval personalities of the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period, Henry Blackwood, George Heneage Dundas and...
1803 - HMS Dartmouth 1813
- HMS Creole 1813
- HMS Semiramis 1808
- HMS Owen GlendowerHMS Owen Glendower (1808)HMS Owen Glendower was a Royal Navy 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo class frigate launched in 1808 and disposed of in 1884...
1808 - HMS Curacoa 1809
- HMS Saldanha 1809
- HMS Hotspur 1810
- HMS HavannahHMS Havannah (1811)HMS Havannah was a Royal Navy 36-gun fifth-rate frigate. She was launched at the Liverpool yard of Wilson & Co. in 1811 and was one of twenty-seven Apollo-class frigates...
1811 - HMS Malacca 1809
- HMS Orpheus 1809
- HMS Leda 1809
- HMS Theban 1809
- HMS Manilla 1809
- HMS AstraeaHMS Astraea (1810)HMS Astraea was a Royal Navy 36-gun Fifth rate Apollo Class frigate, launched in 1810 at Northam. She participated in the Battle of Tamatave and in an inconclusive single-ship action with the French frigate Etoile...
1810 - HMS BelvideraHMS Belvidera (1809)HMS Belvidera was a 36-gun Royal Navy Apollo-class fifth-rate frigate built in Deptford in 1809. She saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 and continued a busy career at sea into the middle of the 19th century...
1809 - HMS GalateaHMS Galatea (1810)HMS Galatea was an Apollo-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. The frigate was built at Deptford Dockyard, London, England and launched on 31 August 1810. In 1811 she participated in the Battle of Tamatave, which battle confirmed British dominance of the seas east of the Cape of Good Hope for the...
1810 - HMS Maidstone 1811
- HMS Stag 1812
- HMS Magicienne 1812
- HMS Pallas 1816
- HMS Barrosa 1812
- HMS Tartar 1814
- HMS Brilliant 1814
- HMS BlondeHMS Blonde (1819)HMS Blonde was a 46-gun modified Apollo-class fifth-rate frigate of 1,103 tons burthen. She undertook an important voyage to the Pacific in 1824...
1819 - completed to fresh 46-gun design
- HMS Apollo
- Aigle class 36-gun fifth rates, 1801
- HMS Aigle 1801
- HMS Resistance 1801
- HMS EthalionHMS Ethalion (1802)HMS Ethalion was a Royal Navy 36-gun frigate, launched in 1802 at Woolwich Dockyard.-Service:Ethalion entered service in 1807 under Captain Charles Stuart, operating in the North Sea. In May 1804 she captured the 16-gun Dutch brig Union off Bergen...
36-gun fifth rate 1802 - Lively classLively class frigateThe Lively class sailing frigates were a series of sixteen ships built to a 1799 design by Sir William Rule, which served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars....
38-gun fifth rates 1804-13- HMS LivelyHMS Lively (1804)HMS Lively was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 July 1804 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month. She was the prototype of the eponymous Lively class of 18-pounder frigates, designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir William Rule...
1804 - HMS Resistance 1805
- HMS ApolloHMS Apollo (1805)HMS Apollo, the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of the Lively class, carrying 38 guns, launched in 1805 and broken up in 1856.-Napoleonic Wars:...
1805 - HMS Hussar 1807
- HMS Statira 1807
- HMS Horatio 1807
- HMS SpartanHMS Spartan (1806)HMS Spartan was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate, launched at Rochester in 1806.-Napoleonic Wars:Spartans first captain was George Airie, but he was soon replaced by Captain Jahleel Brenton, who took Spartan to the Adriatic Sea for service in the Adriatic campaign...
1806 - HMS Undaunted 1807
- HMS MenelausHMS Menelaus (1810)HMS Menelaus was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth rate frigate, launched in 1810 at Plymouth.Menelaus entered service in 1810 under the command of Captain Peter Parker, and within weeks of commissioning was involved in the suppression of a mutiny aboard HMS Africaine...
1810 - HMS Nisus 1810
- HMS Macedonian 1810
- HMS Crescent 1810
- HMS Bacchante 1811
- HMS Nymphe 1812
- HMS Sirius 1813
- HMS Laurel 1813
- HMS Lively
- HMS Forte 38-gun fifth rate 1814
- Perseverance class 36-gun fifth rates 1803-11 (a revival of the class of 1781-83 - see above)
- HMS Tribune 1803
- HMS ShannonHMS Shannon (1803)The third HMS Shannon was a 36-gun frigate of the British Royal Navy built at Frindsbury on the River Medway on the Thames Estuary. She was completed on 3 September 1803 during the Napoleonic Wars...
1803 - HMS Meleager 1806
- HMS Iphigenia 1806
- HMS SalsetteHMS Salsette (1805)HMS Salsette was a Perseverance-class fifth-rate frigate of a nominal 36 guns, launched in 1805. The East India Company built her for the Royal Navy at the Company’s dockyards in Bombay...
1805 - HMS Doris 1807
- HMS Orlando 1811
- HMS Lowestoffe - cancelled 1805
- HMS Hyperion 32-gun fifth rate 1807
- HMS Bucephalus 32-gun fifth rate 1808
- HMS Pyramus 36-gun fifth rate 1810
- Purchased ships of 1804-05 (all teak-built in India)
- HMS Sir Edward Hughes 1804
- HMS Duncan 1805
- HMS HoweHMS Howe (1805)HMS Howe was originally a teak-built Indian mercantile vessel, the Kaikusroo, which Admiral Edward Pellew bought in 1805 to serve as a 40-gun frigate. In 1806 the Admiralty fitted her out as a 24-gun storeship and renamed her HMS Dromedary...
1805
- Scamander classScamander class frigateThe Scamander class sailing frigates were a series of ten 36-gun ships, all built by contract with private shipbuilders to an 1812 design by Sir William Rule, which served in the Royal Navy during the late Napoleonic War and War of 1812....
36-gun fifth rates, 10 pine-built ships, 1813–14- HMS Eridanus 1813
- HMS OrontesHMS Orontes (1813)HMS Orontes was a 36-gun fifth rate of the Scamander class of frigates. She was built at Frindsbury as HMS Brilliant, but was renamed in 1812. She was launched in 1813. One of her commanders was Nathaniel Day Cochrane. In 1817 she was broken up....
1813 - HMS Scamander 1813
- HMS Tagus 1813
- HMS Ister 1813
- HMS Tigris 1813
- HMS Euphrates 1813
- HMS Hebrus 1813
- HMS Granicus 1813
- HMS Alpheus 1814
- Cydnus class 38-gun fifth rates, 8 pine-built ships (essentially to Leda class design), 1813
- HMS CydnusHMS Cydnus (1813)HMS Cydnus was one of eight Royal Navy 38-gun Cydnus-class fifth-rates. This frigate was built in 1813 at Blackwall Yard, London, and broken up in 1816...
1813 - HMS Eurotas 1813
- HMS Niger 1813
- HMS Meander 1813
- HMS PactolusHMS Pactolus (1813)HMS Pactolus was one of eight 38-gun Cydnus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy, that served in the Napoleonic wars and the War of 1812. She was one of the warships that bombarded Stonington, Connecticut from 9 to 12 August 1814...
1813 - HMS Tiber 1813
- HMS Araxes 1813
- HMS Tanais 1813
- HMS Cydnus
- Modified Leda classHMS Leda (1800)HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. Ledas design was based on the French frigate Hébé, which the British had captured in 1782. HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of...
46-gun fifth rates 1820-30- HMS Venus 1820
- HMS Melampus 1820
- HMS Minerva 1820
- HMS Latona 1821
- HMS Diana 1822
- HMS Hebe 1826
- HMS Nereus 1821
- HMS Hamadryad 1823
- HMS Amazon 1821
- HMS Aeolus 1825
- HMS Thisbe 1824
- HMS Cerberus 1827
- HMS Circe 1827
- HMS Clyde 1827
- HMS Thames 1823
- HMS Fox 1829
- HMS UnicornHMS Unicorn (1824)HMS Unicorn and her near-sister ship, HMS Trincomalee, are surviving sailing frigates of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was built, to incorporate a circular stern and "small-timber" system of construction...
1824 - HMS DaedalusHMS Daedalus (1826)HMS Daedalus was a nineteenth century warship of the Royal Navy. She was launched as a fifth-rate frigate of 46 guns in 1826, reduced to 20 guns in 1840....
1826 - HMS Proserpine 1830
- HMS Mermaid 1825
- HMS Mercury 1826
- HMS Penelope 1829
- HMS Thalia 1830
- HMS Nemesis - altered to Seringapatam class
- HMS Statira - altered to Seringapatam class
- HMS Jason - altered to Seringapatam class
- HMS Druid - altered to Seringapatam class
- HMS Pegasus - cancelled 1831
- HMS Medusa - cancelled 1831
- Seringapatam classSeringapatam class frigateThe Seringapatam class frigates, were a successful class of British Royal Navy 46-gun sailing frigates. The first vessel of the class was HMS Seringapatam. The Seringapatam's design was based on the French frigate Président, which the British had captured in 1806...
46-gun fifth rates, 1819–40- HMS Seringapatam 1819
- HMS MadagascarHMS Madagascar (1822)HMS Madagascar was a 46-gun fifth-rate Seringapatam-class frigate, built at Bombay and launched on 15 November 1822.The Bavarian Prince Otto who had been selected as the King of Greece was delivered to his new capital Nafplion in 1833....
1822 - HMS Druid 1825
- HMS Nemesis 1826
- HMS Africaine 1827
- HMS Leda 1828
- HMS Hotspur 1828
- HMS Eurotas 1829
- HMS Andromeda 1829
- HMS Seahorse 1830
- HMS Stag 1830
- HMS Forth 1833
- HMS MaeanderHMS Maeander (1840)HMS Meander was launched at Chatham on 5 May 1840. She was a Seringapatam-class frigate, armed originally with 16 32-pounder carronades and 28 18-pounder carronades. The length of her keel was 133 feet and her beam 42 feet; her burthen was 1221 tons. As a frigate her complement was 222 seamen, 39...
1840 - HMS Euphrates - cancelled 1831.
- HMS Orpheus - cancelled 1831.
- HMS Severn - cancelled 1831.
- HMS Tiber - cancelled 1831.
- HMS Manilla - cancelled 1831.
- HMS Spartan - cancelled 1831.
- HMS Theban - cancelled 1831.
- HMS Jason - cancelled 1831.
- HMS Statira - cancelled 1832.
- HMS Tigris - cancelled 1832.
- HMS Inconstant - cancelled 1832.
- HMS Pique - cancelled 1832.
24-pounder armed frigates
- 1794 razees1794 RazeesIn 1794, three 64-gun third-rate ships were cut down to 44-gun fifth-rate frigates with a primary armament of 24-pounder guns, in a process known as razeeing. This was in response to rumours then circulating of very large French frigates supposed to be under construction...
44-gun (converted from 64-gun ships of the lineShip of the lineA ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...
in 1794)- HMS IndefatigableHMS Indefatigable (1784)HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She had a long career under several distinguished commanders, serving throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...
converted 1794 - HMS AnsonHMS Anson (1781)HMS Anson was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth on 4 September 1781 by Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire.-History:...
converted 1794 - HMS MagnanimeHMS Magnanime (1780)HMS Magnanime was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 October 1780 at Deptford Dockyard. She belonged to the designed by Sir John Williams...
converted 1794
- HMS Indefatigable
- Endymion classEndymion class frigateThe Endymion-class was a class of six Royal Navy 40-gun fifth-rate frigates, with the prototype launched in 1797 and five slightly amended versions built of fir launched from 1813 to 1814.-Design:...
40-gun fifth rate 1797- HMS EndymionHMS Endymion (1797)HMS Endymion was a 40-gun fifth rate that served in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812 and during the First Opium War. She was built to the lines of the French prize captured in 1794...
1797 - HMS SevernHMS Severn (1813)HMS Severn was a member of the , built between 1797 and 1814. The latter five of these were of an experimental nature, being built of Pitch Pine instead of the usual oak, then in short supply. The consequence of using this material was a considerably shortened lifespan compared to the oak-built...
1813 - HMS Liffey 1813
- HMS LiverpoolHMS Liverpool (1814)The third HMS Liverpool was a Royal Navy frigate, reclassified as a fourth rate. She was built by Wigram, Wells and Green and launched at Woolwich on 21 February 1814...
1814 - HMS Glasgow 1814
- HMS Forth 1814
- HMS Endymion
- HMS Cambrian 40-gun fifth rate 1797
- HMS LeanderHMS Leander (1813)HMS Leander was a 4th rate Ship-of-the-Line of 60 guns of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1813.In the War of 1812 she took part in the battle of Fort McHenry....
50-gun (later 60-gun) fourth rate 1813 - HMS Newcastle 50-gun (later 60-gun) fourth rate 1813
- HMS Java 52-gun fourth rate 1815
- HMS IsisHMS Isis (1819)HMS Isis launched in 1819 was ordered in 1811 as a 50-gun two-decker of the fourth rate Salisbury class, but was redesigned while building, being lengthened on the stocks by 11 feet, and cut down by one deck to produce a spar-deck frigate, that is, to carry extra guns on the spar deck which...
58-gun fourth rate 1819 - Southampton classSouthampton class frigate (1820)The Southampton-class frigates launched from 1820 onwards were 52-gun sailing frigates of the fourth rate produced for the Royal Navy following the close of the Napoleonic War. They were designed in 1816 to carry sixty guns, but were completed with fifty-two guns only...
58-gun fourth rates 1820-43- HMS Southampton 1820
- HMS Portland 1822
- HMS Lancaster 1823
- HMS WinchesterHMS Winchester (1822)HMS Winchester was a 60-gun Southampton-class sailing frigate of the Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1816 at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 21 June 1822. Although designed for 60 guns, she and the rest of the class carried 52 guns. From 1831 to 1861 she served in North America and South East...
1822 - HMS Chichester 1843
- HMS Worcester 1843
- HMS Liverpool - cancelled 1829
- HMS Jamaica - cancelled 1829
- HMS PresidentHMS President (1829)HMS President was ordered in May 1818 to be built as a 58-gun frigate to the exact lines of the previous President, captured from the Americans in January 1815; this prize ship was re-classed as a 60-gun fourth rate in February 1817 but was taken to pieces in June 1818...
58-gun fourth rate 1829
32-pounder armed frigates
- HMS CastorHMS Castor (1832)HMS Castor was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. .Castor was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 2 May 1832. She was one of a two ship class of frigates, built to an 1828 design by Sir Robert Seppings, and derived from the earlier Stag class. The Castor class had a further of...
36-gun fifth rate 1832 - HMS Vernon 50-gun fourth rate 1832
- Pique class 36-gun fifth rates 1834-41
- HMS PiqueHMS Pique (1834)HMS Pique was a wooden fifth rate warship of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 July 1834 at Devonport. She was of 1633 tons and had 36 guns....
1834 - HMS Cambrian 1841
- HMS Flora 1844
- HMS Active 1845
- HMS Sybille 1847
- HMS Constance - re-ordered to different design
- HMS Chesapeake - re-ordered as steam/screw frigate
- HMS Pique
- HMS Inconstant 36-gun fifth rate 1836
- HMS ThetisHMS Thetis (1846)HMS Thetis was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. After nearly a decade of service with the British, she was one of two frigates transferred to Prussia in exchange for two gunboats...
36-gun fifth rate 1846 - Raleigh class 50-gun fourth rates 1845
- HMS Raleigh 1845
- HMS Severn - re-ordered as steam/screw frigate
- Constance class 50-gun fourth rates 1846
- HMS ConstanceHMS Constance (1846)HMS Constance was a 50-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1846. She had a tonnage of 2,132 and was designed with a V-shaped by Sir William Symonds she was also one of the last class of frigates designed by him...
1846 - HMS Arethusa 1849
- HMS Octavia 1849
- HMS SutlejHMS Sutlej (1855)HMS Sutlej was a Constance-class 50-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.The class was designed by Sir William Symonds in 1843, and were the largest sailing frigates built for the Navy. Sutlej was ordered from Pembroke Dockyard on 26 March 1845, laid down in August 1847 and launched on 17...
1855 - HMS Liffey - re-ordered as steam/screw frigate
- HMS Constance
- Leander class 50-gun fourth rates 1848
- HMS Leander 1848
- HMS Shannon - re-ordered as steam/screw frigate
- HMS PhaetonHMS PhaetonSeveral ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Phaeton orPhaëton after Phaëton, the son of Helios in Greek mythology:* HMS Phaeton, a purpose-built fireship launched in 1691, was expended against the French Navy at La Hogue in 1692....
50-gun fourth rate 1848 - Indefatigable class 50-gun fourth rates 1848
- HMS Indefatigable 1848
- HMS Phoebe 1854
- HMS Nankin 50-gun fourth rate 1850
The following three classes were begun as sailing frigates, but all were completed as screw-driven steam frigates.
- Emerald class 50-gun fourth rates, ordered 1848.
- San Fiorenzo class 50-gun fourth rates, ordered 1848.
- Narcissus class 50-gun fourth rates, ordered 1848.
Early steam frigates – by class
During the 1840s, the introduction of steam propulsion was to radically change the nature of the frigate. Initial trials were with paddle-driven vessels, but these had numerous disadvantages, not least that the paddle wheels restricted the numbers of guns that could be mounted on the broadside. So the application of the screw propellor meant that a full broadside could still be carried, and a number of sail frigates were adapted, while during the 1850s the first frigates designed from the start to have screw propulsion were ordered. It is important to remember that all these early steam vessels still carried a full rig of masts and sails, and that steam power remained a means of assistance to these vessels.In 1887 all frigates and corvettes in the British Navy were re-categorised as 'cruisers', and the term 'frigate' was abolished, not to re-emerge until the Second World War, at which time it was resurrected to describe a totally different type of escort vessel.
- Cyclops class wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1839-44 - second class, originally classed just as 'steam vessels'.
- HMS Cyclops 1839
- HMS VultureHMS Vulture (1843)HMS Vulture was a steam-powered wooden-hulled second-class paddle frigate of the Royal Navy. The Vulture carried 6 guns - two 8-inch guns of 95 cwt mounted on pivots at bow and stern, and four 8-inch guns of 65 cwt on broadside trucks, and had a displacement of 1,960 tons...
1843 - HMS Firebrand 1842
- HMS Gladiator 1844
- HMS Sampson wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1844 - second class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel'.
- Centaur class wooden-hulled paddle frigates 1845 - second class, originally classed just as 'steam vessels'.
- HMS Centaur 1845
- HMS Dragon 1845
- HMS Penelope wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1843 - first class, originally built as a sailing frigate in 1829.
- HMS Retribution wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1844 - first class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel'.
- HMS TerribleHMS Terrible (1845)HMS Terrible was when designed the largest steam-powered wooden paddle wheel frigate built for the Royal Navy. She was designed by Oliver Lang and laid down at HMNB Devonport under the name HMS Simoom, but was renamed on 23 December 1842, and launched on 6 February 1845...
wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1845 - first class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel'. - HMS AvengerHMS Avenger (1845)HMS Avenger was a wooden paddle wheel frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1845 and wrecked with heavy loss of life in 1847.-Construction and commissioning:...
wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1845 - first class. - HMS BirkenheadHMS Birkenhead (1845)HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or steam frigate Birkenhead, was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy...
(ex-Vulcan) iron-hulled paddle frigate 1845 - second class, launched as a frigate but completed as a troopship in 1847. - HMS OdinHMS Odin (1846)HMS Odin was a steam-powered first-class paddle frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1846 and was used in the Baltic theatre of the Crimean War....
wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1846 - first class. - HMS SidonHMS Sidon (1846)HMS Sidon was a first-class paddle frigate designed by Sir Charles Napier: her name commemorated his attack on the port of Sidon in 1840 during the Syrian War. Her keel was laid down May 26, 1845 at Deptford Dockyard, and she was launched on May 26, 1846...
wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1846 - first class. - HMS Leopard wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1850 - second class.
- HMS Tiger wooden-hulled paddle frigate 1849 - second class.
- Magicienne class wooden-hulled paddle frigates 1851 - second class.
- HMS Magicienne 1849
- HMS ValorousHMS Valorous (1851)HMS Valorous was a 16 gun steam powered paddle wheel frigate of the Royal Navy built at Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 30 April 1851.-Design and Construction:...
1851
- Furious class wooden-hulled paddle frigates 1850 - second class.
- HMS FuriousHMS Furious (1850)HMS Furious was a 16 gun steam powered paddle wheel frigate of the Royal Navy built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 26 August 1850. She was the lead ship of the two ship class of...
1850 - HMS Resolute - cancelled 1850
- HMS Furious
- HMS AmphionHMS Amphion (1846)HMS Amphion was a 36-gun wooden hulled screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was initially ordered as a sail powered ship, but later reordered as a prototype screw frigate conversion.-Design and construction:...
wooden-hulled screw frigate 1846 - the prototype screw frigate - HMS ArrogantHMS Arrogant (1848)HMS Arrogant was a wood screw frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1848 and sold in 1867. During the period of 1848–1850 it was commanded by Robert FitzRoy. On 15 April 1854 the Arrogant was one of a number of Royal Navy ships that captured the Russian brig Patrioten. The Arrogant served...
wooden-hulled screw frigate 1848 - first class - Dauntless class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1847 - second class
- HMS DauntlessHMS Dauntless (1847)The third HMS Dauntless was a wooden-hulled steam screw frigate, launched at Portsmouth in 1847.-History:First intended as a paddle vessel, she was designed by John Fincham, and partially redesigned to take screw propulsion; in an effort to improve her initially disappointing performance she was...
1847 - HMS Vigilant - cancelled 1849
- HMS Dauntless
- Termagant class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1847 - second class
- HMS Termagant 1847
- HMS Euphrates - cancelled 1849
- Tribune class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1853 - second class
- HMS Tribune 1853
- HMS CuracoaHMS Curacoa (1854)HMS Curacoa was a 31-gun Tribune-class screw frigate launched on 13 April 1854 from Pembroke Dockyard.She served in the Mediterranean Station between 1854 until 1857 and was in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. She was part of the Channel Squadron between 1857 until 1859. She then was sent to...
1854
- Forte class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1852
- HMS ImperieuseHMS Imperieuse (1852)HMS Imperieuse was a wooden screw frigate launched in 1852 and sold in 1867.In particular it was used in the Second Opium War. Many received the China Medal afterwards....
1852 - HMS EuryalusHMS Euryalus (1853)HMS Euryalus was a fourth-rate wooden-hulled screw frigate of the Royal Navy, with a 400HP steam engine that could make over 12 knots. She was launched at Chatham in 1853, was 212 feet long, displaced 3125 tons and had a complement of 515...
1853 - HMS Aurora 1861
- HMS Forte 1858
- HMS ChesapeakeHMS Chesapeake (1855)HMS Chesapeake was a Royal Navy screw-propelled 51-gun frigate launched in 1855, with a crew of 510 men. She saw action during the Second Opium War and there is a memorial to her losses at Southsea, near Portsmouth. She was the flagship of the British China Squadron in 1861.Admiral of the Fleet,...
1855
- HMS Imperieuse
- Liffey class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1856
- HMS Liffey 1856
- HMS ShannonHMS Shannon (1855)HMS Shannon was a Liffey-class steam frigate of the Royal Navy.She was originally ordered as a sail driven Leander-class frigate,. but was re-ordered as screw frigate on 4 April 1851. She was built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 24 November 1855...
1855 - HMS TopazeHMS Topaze (1858)HMS Topaze was a 24-gun Liffey class wooden screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 12 May 1858, at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth. Her crew assisted in the building of the Race Rocks Lighthouse in British Columbia, Canada, and laid a bronze tablet in 1863 at the Juan Fernández Islands...
1858 - HMS Bacchante 1859
- HMS LiverpoolHMS Liverpool (1860)HMS Liverpool was a fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 31 March 1855, but building did not commence until 14 November 1859 and she was launched at Devonport Dockyard on 30 October 1860, in the same year that the famous iron-hulled Warrior was launched.During her first...
1860
- Diadem class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1856-57
- HMS Diadem 1856
- HMS Doris 1857
- Ariadne class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1859
- HMS Ariadne 1859
- HMS GalateaHMS Galatea (1859)HMS Galatea was an Ariadne class 26-gun sixth rate wooden screw frigate launched in 1859 and broken up 1883. In 1866 she went on a world cruise, under the command of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh....
1859
- Emerald class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1856
- HMS Emerald 1856
- HMS Melpomene 1857
- HMS Immortalite 1859
- Mersey class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1858
- HMS OrlandoHMS Orlando (1858)HMS Orlando and her sister ship HMS Mersey were the longest wooden warships built for the Royal Navy. At 336 feet in length, HMS Orlando was nearly twice the size of HMS Victory, the flagship of Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar...
1858 - HMS MerseyHMS Mersey (1858)The second HMS Mersey was commissioned in 1858, just six years after the first Mersey had been broken up. Her and her sister ship the Orlando were the longest wooden warships built for the Royal Navy. At 336 feet in length, HMS Mersey was nearly twice the size of HMS Victory, the flagship of...
1858
- HMS Orlando
- HMS Narcissus wooden-hulled screw frigate 1859
- Bristol class wooden-hulled screw frigates 1860
- HMS NewcastleHMS Newcastle (1860)HMS Newcastle was a wooden screw frigate, the fifth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy....
1860 - HMS GlasgowHMS Glasgow (1861)HMS Glasgow was a wooden screw frigate, the fifth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy.Glasgow was launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 28 March 1861. Despite ironclad ships being introduced in 1858 and effectively rendering wooden hulls obsolete the Glasgow was built of wood to use up some...
1861 - HMS BristolHMS Bristol (1861)HMS Bristol was a wooden screw frigate of the Immortalite class, the fourth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy. Other ships in the class are HMS Immortalite, HMS Bristol, HMS Glasgow, HMS Newcastle, and HMS Undaundted...
1861 - HMS UndauntedHMS Undaunted (1861)HMS Undaunted was a wooden screw frigate, the fifth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy....
1861 - Ten further vessels to this design were cancelled in 1863-64 - Tweed, Dryad, Belvidera, Pomone, Raleigh, Briton, Barham, Boadicea, Bucephalus and Dextrous.
- HMS Newcastle
- Ister classIster class frigateThe Ister-class frigates were a group of five 36-gun screw frigates built for the Royal Navy in the early 1860s. Four of the ships were cancelled after they were laid down and was the only ship completed.-Description:...
wooden-hulled screw frigates 1865- HMS EndymionHMS Endymion (1865)HMS Endymion was a 21-gun wooden screw frigate, the third of four ships of this name to serve in the Royal Navy. She was the last wooden frigate built at Deptford Dockyard. She was commissioned in 1866 and spent much of her service based at Malta. In 1869–70 she sailed around the world as part of a...
1865 - Four further vessels to this design were cancelled in 1863-64 - Ister, Blonde, Astrea and Dartmouth.
- HMS Endymion
- HMS InconstantHMS Inconstant (1868)HMS Inconstant was an iron screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 12 November 1868 and became a training ship in 1906, renamed Impregnable II. She became the Navy's torpedo school ship in January 1922 and was renamed Defiance IV, and Defiance II in December 1930, before being finally...
iron-hulled screw frigate 1868 - HMS ShahHMS Shah (1873)The first HMS Shah was a 19th century unarmoured iron hulled, wooden sheathed frigate of Britain's Royal Navy designed by Sir Edward Reed. She was originally to be named HMS Blonde but was renamed following the visit of the Shah of Persia in 1873....
iron-hulled screw frigate 1873 - HMS Raleigh iron-hulled screw frigate 1873
Modern frigates – by class
Note that, unlike the previous sections, no lists of the individual ships comprising each class are shown below; they are to be found in the articles on the separate classes.- River classRiver class frigateThe River class frigate was a class of 151 frigates launched between 1941 and 1944 for use as anti-submarine convoy escorts in the North Atlantic....
— 138 ships, 1941–1944 - Colony classColony class frigateThe Colony class frigates were a class of 21 ships constructed in the United States by Walsh-Kaiser of Providence, Rhode Island for transfer under Lend-Lease to the Royal Navy in 1944...
— 21 ships - Captain classCaptain class frigateThe Captain class were 78 frigates of the Royal Navy, constructed in the United States, launched in 1942–1943 and delivered to the United Kingdom under the provisions of Lend-Lease. They served in World War II as convoy escorts, anti-submarine warfare vessels and coastal forces control frigates...
— 78 ships - Loch classLoch class frigateThe Loch class was a class of anti-submarine frigate built for the Royal Navy and her allies during World War II. They were an innovative design based on the experience of 3 years of fighting in the Battle of the Atlantic and attendant technological advances.-Design:The Lochs were based upon the...
— 26 ships - Bay classBay class frigateThe Bay class was a class of 26 anti-aircraft frigates built for the Royal Navy under the 1943 War Emergency Programme during World War II...
— 21 ships (redesigned Loch class for anti-aircraft escort) - Type 15Type 15 frigateThe Type 15 frigate was a class of British anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Navy. They were conversions based on the hulls of World War II-era destroyers built to the standard War Emergency Programme "utility" design.-History:...
— 23 ships (full rebuilds of World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
destroyer hulls) - Type 16Type 16 frigateThe Type 16 frigates were a class of British anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Navy. They were based on the hulls of World War II-era destroyers that had been rendered obsolete by rapid advances in technology...
— 10 ships (partial rebuilds of wartime destroyer hulls) - Type 41 Leopard classLeopard class frigateThe Type 41 or Leopard class were a class of anti-aircraft defence frigates built for the Royal Navy and Indian Navy in the 1950s. These ships were designed to provide anti-aircraft escorts to convoys, as a result they were not built for fleet speeds and made only...
— 4 ships - Type 61 Salisbury classSalisbury class frigateThe Type 61 Salisbury class were a class of British aircraft direction frigates built for the Royal Navy. They were related to the Type 41 Leopard class frigates, but with reduced armament to make way for more aircraft direction equipment.-Construction Programme:Three further ships of the class...
— 4 ships - Type 12 Whitby classWhitby class frigateThe Type 12 frigates of the Whitby class were a six-ship class of anti-submarine warfare frigates of the Royal Navy that entered service late in the 1950s. They were designed as first rate ocean-going convoy escorts in light of experience gained during World War II...
— 6 ships - Type 12M Rothesay classRothesay class frigateThe Rothesay class, or Type 12M frigates were a class of frigates serving with the Royal Navy, South African Navy and the New Zealand Navy....
— 9 ships - Type 12I Leander classLeander class frigateThe Leander class, or Type 12I frigates, comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973...
— 26 ships (subclasses: 8 Batch 1, 8 Batch 2, 10 Batch 3) - Type 14 Blackwood classBlackwood class frigateThe Type 14, Blackwood, class were a twelve ship class of "second rate" anti-submarine warfare frigates of the Royal Navy, designed and built during the increasing threat from the Soviet Union's large fleet of submarines that roamed the Atlantic Ocean.-Design:They were designed to be cheaper and...
— 12 ships - Type 81 Tribal classTribal class frigateThe Type 81, or Tribal class, was a class of seven general-purpose frigates for the Royal Navy designed during the 1950s that served throughout the 1960s and 1970s with limited service during the 1980s.-History:...
— 7 ships - Type 21 Amazon classType 21 frigateThe Type 21 frigate or Amazon-class frigate was a Royal Navy general-purpose escort designed in the late 1960s, built in the 1970s and that served throughout the 1980s into the 1990s.-History:...
— 8 ships - Type 22Type 22 frigateThe Type 22 Broadsword class is a class of frigate built for the British Royal Navy. Fourteen of the class were built in total, with production divided into three batches. With the decommissioning of HMS Cornwall on 30 June 2011, the final Type 22 of the Royal Navy was retired from service...
— 14 ships (subclasses: Broadsword 4, Boxer 6, Cornwall 4) - Type 23 Duke classType 23 frigateThe Type 23 frigate is a class of frigate built for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. All the ships were first named after British Dukes, thus the class is also known as the Duke class. The first Type 23 was commissioned in 1989, and the sixteenth, was launched in May 2000 and commissioned in...
— 16 ships
Sail frigates - alphabeticaly
Note that frigate names were routinely re-used, so that there were often many vessels which re-used the same names over the course of nearly two centuries.- Actaeon - sold 1766
- Africaine 38 - captured by France
- Aigle (ex-French Aigle, captured 1782)
- Amphitrite 38 (1816)
- Andromache (1829)
- ArethusaHMS Arethusa (1781)HMS Arethusa was a 38-gun Minerva-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built at Bristol in 1781.She took part in the Action of 23 April 1794, capturing Pomone....
- BoadiceaHMS Boadicea (1797)HMS Boadicea was a frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the Channel and in the East Indies during which service she captured many prizes. She participated in one action for which the Admiralty would award the Naval General Service Medal...
38 - Bombay 40 (c.1793) - renamed Ceylon
- Bon-Acquis (ex-French Bon-Acquis, captured 1757)
- Boreas - sold 1770
- Brilliant 36
- Caroline (ex-French Caroline, captured September 1809)
- Constant Warwick 26 (c.1646)
- Cornwallis 56 (c.1800) - renamed Akbar
- CoventryHMS Coventry (1757)HMS Coventry was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was designed by Sir Thomas Slade "to the draught of the Tartar with such alterations withinboard as may be judged necessary", making her a further development of the Lyme...
28 1757 - Danae (ex-French Danae, captured 1759)
- Diamond 32 (1774)HMS Diamond (1774)The fourth HMS Diamond was a Modified Lowestoffe-class fifth-rate frigate, ordered on 25 December 1770 as one of five fifth-rate frigates of 32 guns each contained in the emergency frigate-building programme inaugurated when the likelihood of war with Spain arose over the ownership of the Falkland...
- Diana (1757) - sold 1793
- EndymionHMS Endymion (1797)HMS Endymion was a 40-gun fifth rate that served in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812 and during the First Opium War. She was built to the lines of the French prize captured in 1794...
40 (1797) - captured by USS President 1815 - Flora 36 (1780) - wrecked in 1809
- Freya (ex-Danish Freya, captured 25 July 1800)
- Hebe 40 (ex-French Hebe, captured 1782) - broken up 1811
- HussarHMS HussarTen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hussar, after the hussar.*The first Hussar was a 28-gun sixth-rate launched in 1757 and captured by the French in 1762 after running aground off Cuba....
- name used by several ships in this period - IndefatigableHMS Indefatigable (1784)HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She had a long career under several distinguished commanders, serving throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...
44 (build 1784 as a 64 gun ship of the lineShip of the lineA ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...
, razeed) - Iphigenia - captured by France in 1810
- JavaHMS Java (1811)HMS Java was a British Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate. She was originally launched in 1805 as the Renommée, described as a 40-gun Pallas-class French Navy frigate, but the vessel actually carried 46 guns...
38 (launched 1808, captured from French 1811) - captured by USS Constitution in 1813 - LatonaHMS Latona (1779)HMS Latona was a 38-gun, 18-pounder gun armed fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was designed by the senior surveyor John Williams. In this era it was common for each surveyor to produce independent designs for new ship types, and this design was a counterpoint to Edward Hunt's HMS Minerva;...
38 (1779), sold in 1816 - Laurel 38 (ex-French La Fidèle, captured 16 August 1809 at the surrender of Flushing)
- LivelyHMS Lively (1804)HMS Lively was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 July 1804 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month. She was the prototype of the eponymous Lively class of 18-pounder frigates, designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir William Rule...
38 (1804), wrecked off Malta in 1810 - LutineHMS Lutine (1779)The Lutine was a Magicienne-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1779, captured by the Royal Navy, recommissioned as HMS Lutine, and lost in 1799. The Lutine Bell from the ship is preserved at Lloyd's of London....
38 (launched in 1779, transferred from French Navy in 1793) - wrecked in 1799 off Holland - LymeHMS LymeAt least four vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Lyme:* Lyme , 52-gun third-rate. Renamed Montagu in 1660.* Lyme , 20-gun sixth-rate.* Lyme , 24-gun sixth-rate.* Lyme , 28-gun sixth-rate....
18 (1748), wrecked 1760 - MacedonianHMS MacedonianHMS Macedonian was a 38-gun fifth rate in the Royal Navy, later captured by the during the War of 1812. She was built at Woolwich Dockyard, England in 1809, launched 2 June 1810 and commissioned the same month. She was commanded by Captain Lord William Fitzroy...
38 (1810), captured by USS United States in 1812, broken up 1828 - Madagascar 46 (1822)
- Melampe (ex-French Melampe, captured 1758)
- MinervaHMS Minerva (1780)HMS Minerva was a 38-gun fifth-rate Royal Navy frigate. The first of four Minerva-class frigates, she was launched on 3 June 1780, and commissioned soon thereafter. In 1798 she was renamed Pallas and employed as a troopship...
38 (1780) - broken up in 1803 - Nereide 38, captured 1797, sold 1816.
- NewcastleHMS NewcastleEight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Newcastle, after the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne:*HMS Newcastle was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship launched in 1653. She was rebuilt in 1692 and wrecked in 1703....
- name used by several ships in this period - OrpheusHMS Orpheus (1773)HMS Orpheus was a British Modified Lowestoffe-class fifth-rate frigate, ordered on 25 December 1770 as one of five fifth-rate frigates of 32 guns each contained in the emergency frigate-building programme inaugurated when the likelihood of war with Spain arose over the ownership of the Falkland...
32 (1773) - PallasHMS PallasSeven ships of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy have been called HMS Pallas. There are several figures called Pallas in Greek Mythology.* The first Pallas was a 36 gun fifth rate launched at Deptford in 1757 and run aground in 1783....
- name used by several ships in this period - Phaeton 38 (1782)
- Pitt 36 (1805)
- Pomone 44 (ex-French Pomone, captured 1794) - broken up in 1802
- Rainbow 44 (1747) - sold in 1802
- Resistance 44, sank 24 July 1798
- Saldanha - shipwrecked in Lough SwillyLough SwillyLough Swilly in Ireland is a glacial fjord or sea inlet lying between the western side of the Inishowen Peninsula and the Fanad Peninsula, in County Donegal. Along with Carlingford Lough and Killary Harbour it is one of three known glacial fjords in Ireland....
, DonegalDonegalDonegal or Donegal Town is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. Its name, which was historically written in English as Dunnagall or Dunagall, translates from Irish as "stronghold of the foreigners" ....
, 4 December 1811 - Salsette 36 (1807)
- Santa Leocadia 34 (ex-Spanish Santa Leocadia, captured 1781)
- Santa Margarita 34 (ex-Spanish Santa Margarita, captured 1779)
- Shannon 28 (1757) - broken up in 1765
- ShannonHMS Shannon (1806)HMS Shannon was a 38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812...
38 (1806) - broken up 1859 - SiriusHMS Sirius (1797)HMS Sirius was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Between 1797 and 1805, the Sirius was engaged in maintaining the blockade of Napoleonic Europe...
36 (1797) - scuttled during the Mauritius campaign of 1810 - Southampton 32 (1757) - wrecked off the Bahamas in 1812
- Surprise 28 (1796) - ex-French L'Unité captured 1796, sold in 1802
- ThetisHMS Thetis (1782)HMS Thetis was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1782. In 1795 she captured the French storeships Prevoyante and Raison; and in 1801 took part in Lord Keith's expedition to Egypt; in 1809 assisted in cutting out the French 16-gun man-of-war Nisus at Guadeloupe, and took part...
38 (1782) - Trent 28 (1757) - sold in 1764
- Trent 36 (1796) - broken up in 1823
- TrincomaleeHMS TrincomaleeHMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly following the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, UK.-History:...
38 (1817) - preserved afloat in HartlepoolHartlepoolHartlepool is a town and port in North East England.It was founded in the 7th century AD, around the Northumbrian monastery of Hartlepool Abbey. The village grew during the Middle Ages and developed a harbour which served as the official port of the County Palatine of Durham. A railway link from...
, UK - UnicornHMS Unicorn (1748)HMS Unicorn was a 28-gun Lyme-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally ordered as a 24-gun ship to the draft of the French privateer Tyger. The third vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name, the Unicorn, as well as which was a near-sister, were the first true frigates built...
28 (1748) - broken up 1771 - UnicornHMS Unicorn (1824)HMS Unicorn and her near-sister ship, HMS Trincomalee, are surviving sailing frigates of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was built, to incorporate a circular stern and "small-timber" system of construction...
46 (1824) - preserved in Scotland - Venus (ex-French Venus, captured 17 September 1809)
- Venus 36
Reference sources
- Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates (Conway Maritime, 1992); The Heavy Frigate (Conway Maritime, 1994); Warships of the Napoleonic Era (Chatham Publishing, 1999); Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars (Chatham Publishing, 2000)
- Rif Winfield, The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815-1889 (co-author David Lyon, Chatham Publishing, 2004) ISBN 1-86176-032-9;
British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1793-1817 (2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008) ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4;
British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1714-1792 (Seaforth Publishing, 2007) ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6;
British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1603-1714 (Seaforth Publishing, 2009) ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6.
See also
- Type system of the Royal NavyType system of the Royal NavyThe Type system is a classification system used by the British Royal Navy to classify surface escorts by function. The system evolved in the early 1950s, when the Royal Navy was experimenting with building single-purpose escort vessels with specific roles in light of experience gained in World War II...