The ''Artois'' class were a series of nine

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s built to a 1793 design by Sir John Henslow, which served in the

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during the French Revolutionary and

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. Seven of these ships were built by contract with commercial builders, while the remaining pair (''Tamar'' and ''Clyde'') were dockyard-built – the latter built using "fir" (pitch pine) instead of the normal oak. They were armed with a main battery of 28 eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate. Besides this battery, they also carried two 9-pounders together with twelve 32-pounder carronades on the quarterdeck, and another two 9-pounders together with two 32-pounder carronades on the forecastle.

Ships in class

Citations

References

*Robert Gardiner, ''The Heavy Frigate'', Conway Maritime Press, London 1994. *Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. . {{Artois class frigate Frigate classes Frigates of the Royal Navy Ship classes of the Royal Navy