This is a list of frigate classes of the Royal Navy of the

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(and the individual ships composed within those classes) in chronological order from the formal creation of the

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following the Restoration in 1660. 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. All

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s built for the Royal Navy up to 1877 (when the

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re-categorised all frigates and

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as " cruisers") are listed below. The term "frigate" was resuscitated in

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and subsequent classes are listed at the end of this article, but the individual ships within those classes are not listed in this article.

The frigate before 1660

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

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fourth-rate In 1603 all English warships with a complement of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'. In 1625/26 to establish pay rates for officers, a six-tier naval ship rating system was introduced.Winfield 2009 These small ships were divided ...

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. In this list, the term is restricted to

fifth rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower. Rating The rating system in the Royal N ...

s and

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s 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 of 1645, were third-rate or fourth-rate

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and thus are not listed below. As the Royal Navy was not officially created until 1660, vessels from the preceding (Commonwealth) era are only included where they survived past 1660. Prizes taken from enemy naval forces and added to the Royal Navy are also excluded.

Fifth-rates before 1660

Prior to 1626 when the rating system was established, these vessels were known as pinnaces. The vessels were considered too lightly armed and built to stand in the line of battle. Fifth rates were essentially two-decked vessels, with a demi-battery on the lower deck and a lesser number of guns of lesser power on the upper deck (as well as even smaller guns on the quarterdeck). * 1651 Programme Group ** ''Pearl'' ** ''Mermaid'' ** ''Primrose'' ** ''Nightingale'' * Vessels of 1653–1656 Programmes: ** – launched 23 February 1654 ** – launched 25 March 1654 (wrecked 24 July 1655) ** – launched 22 May 1654, renamed HMS ''Milford'' in 1660 ** – launched 22 April 1654, renamed HMS ''Eagle'' in 1660 ** – launched 26 April 1654, renamed HMS ''Guernsey'' in 1660 ** – launched 1654, renamed HMS ''Garland'' in 1660 ** – launched 11 September 1655 ** – launched September 1655 ** – launched 22 September 1655 ** – launched 16 April 1656, renamed HMS ''Speedwell'' in 1660 ** – launched November 1656, renamed HMS ''Richmond'' in 1660 ** – launched November 1656 ** – launched 3 September 1657 ** – launched March 1658, renamed HMS ''Success'' in 1660

Sixth-rate frigates before 1660

Sixth rates were single-decked vessels, with a battery on the (single) gun deck, and usually some lesser guns on the quarterdeck. * Vessels of 1651 Programme: ** – launched 1652 ** – launched 1652 ** – launched 1652

Frigates from 1660 to 1688

Fifth-rate frigates from 1660 to 1688

''Charles Galley'' was an early galley-frigate with a bank of sweeps above the waterline, the last of these types (''Royal Anne Galley'') being launched in 1709. * Vessels of 1665 Programme: ** – launched 1665 ** – launched 21 March 1666 ** – launched 1666 *Vessels of 1668–1669 Programmes: ** – launched 22 December 1668 ** – launched 31 March 1671 * Vessels of 1670s construction: ** – launched September 1674 ** – launched 29 June 1675 ** – 32 guns, launched 1676, rebuilt 1693, renamed HMS ''Torrington'' in 1729 after two further rebuilds

Sixth-rate frigates from 1660 to 1688

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** – launched July 1666 ** – launched 24 July 1666 ** – launched 1666 * Designed and built by Anthony Deane at

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** – launched 28 October 1669 ** – launched July 1672 * Designed and built by Sir Anthony Deane at Blackwall ** – launched 11 June 1675

Frigates from 1688 to 1719

For ships before the

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, the term 'class' is inappropriate as individual design was left up to the master

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. For other vessels, the Surveyor of the Navy produced a common design for ships which were to be built under a commercial contract rather than in a Royal Dockyard. Consequently, the term 'group' is used as more applicable for ships built to similar specifications (and to the same principal dimensions) but to varying designs.

Fifth rates from 1688 to 1719

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1689 Programme Group The 1689 Programme of fifth rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower. Rati ...

– 32-gun fifth rates 1689–1691 ** ** ** ** ** * ex-fourth rate rebuilt 1691 as a fifth rate – 40 guns * purchased 1693 – 40 guns. * HMS ''Charles Galley'' – 32 guns, launched 1676, rebuilt 1693, renamed ''Torrington'' in 1727 after two more rebuilds *

1693 Programme Group The 1693 Programme of fifth rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower. Rati ...

– 32-gun fifth rates 1694 ** HMS ''Shoreham'' 1694 ** HMS ''Scarborough'' 1694 ** HMS ''Sorlings'' 1694 ** HMS ''Winchelsea'' 1694 * 1694 Programme Group – 32-gun fifth rates 1695–1698 ** HMS ''Lyme'' 1695 ** HMS ''Hastings'' (i) 1695 ** HMS ''Milford'' 1695 ** HMS ''Arundel'' 1695 ** HMS ''Rye'' 1696 ** HMS ''Scarborough'' 1696 ** HMS ''Looe'' (i) 1696 ** HMS ''Lynn'' 1696 ** HMS ''Fowey'' 1696 ** HMS ''Southsea Castle'' (i) 1696 ** HMS ''Gosport'' 1696 ** HMS ''Poole'' 1696 ** HMS ''Feversham'' 1696 ** HMS ''Hastings'' (ii) 1698 ** HMS ''Lowestoffe'' 1697 ** HMS ''Looe'' (ii) 1697 ** HMS ''Southsea Castle'' (ii) 1697 ** HMS ''Bridgewater'' 1698 ** HMS ''Ludlow'' 1698 * - purchased 1695 - 36 guns * - only ship of Royal Navy built at Kinsale, Ireland * ''Tartar'' Group 1702-1703 ** HMS ''Tartar'' 1702 ** HMS ''Falcon'' 1704 ** HMS ''Fowey'' 1705 * ''Lark'' group – 42-gun fifth rates 1703–1706 ** HMS ''Hector'' 1703 ** HMS ''Lark'' 1703 ** HMS ''Greyhound'' 1703 ** HMS ''Garland'' 1703 ** HMS ''Folkestone'' 1703 ** HMS ''Roebuck'' 1704 (40 guns only) ** HMS ''Sorlings'' 1706 *

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group – 42-gun fifth rates 1707–1715 *The Navy Board ordered sixteen of these vessels between 1705 and 1711 as 42-gun vessels. The remaining pair—''Looe'' and ''Diamond''—were not ordered but rather the Navy Board purchased them on the stocks from the shipbuilder who had commenced building them "on spec". All the vessels were armed under the 1703 Guns Establishment with a main battery of nine-pounder guns. Under the 1716 Guns Establishment, a 40-gun ship with a main battery of 12-pounder guns superseded the 42-gun ship. Hence, the last six of the ships listed below were completed as 40-gun ships. ** HMS ''Ludlow Castle'' 1707 – broken up 1721 ** HMS ''Gosport'' 1707 – broken up 1735 ** HMS ''Portsmouth'' 1707 – broken up 1728 ** HMS ''Hastings'' 1707 – sold for breaking 1745 ** HMS ''Looe'' 1707 – sunk as a breakwater 1737 ** HMS ''Diamond'' 1708 – broken up 1721 to rebuild ** HMS ''Sapphire'' 1708 – sold for breaking 1745 ** HMS ''Enterprize'' 1709 – sold for breaking 1749 ** HMS ''Pearl'' 1708 – broken up 1723 to rebuild ** HMS ''Southsea Castle'' 1708 – broken up 1723 to rebuild ** HMS ''Adventure'' 1709 – broken up 1724 to rebuild ** HMS ''Mary Galley'' 1708 – broken up 1721 to rebuild ** HMS ''Fowey'' 1709 – renamed ''Queenborough'' 1744, sold for breaking 1746 ** HMS ''Royal Anne Galley'' 1709 – wrecked 1721 ** HMS ''Charles Galley'' – launched 1676, rebuilt 1693 and 1710 – renamed ''Torrington'' 1729, broken up 1744 ** HMS ''Launceston'' 1711 – broken up 1726 to rebuild ** HMS ''Faversham'' 1712 – broken up 1730 to rebuild ** HMS ''Lynn'' 1715 – broken up 1732

Sixth-rate frigates from 1688 to 1719

Before the "true" sail frigate came 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 nine-pounder guns just prior to being superseded by the 28-gun sixth-rate frigate. * ''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 **

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1694 ** HMS ''Seahorse'' 1694 ** HMS ''Bideford'' 1695 ** HMS ''Penzance'' 1695 ** HMS ''Dunwich'' 1695 ** 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 **

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

Frigates from 1719 to 1750

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. For other vessels, the Surveyor of the Navy produced a common design for ships which were to be built under a commercial contract rather than in a Royal Dockyard. Consequently, the term 'group' is used as more applicable for ships built to similar specifications laid down in the Establishments but to varying designs. However, from 1739 almost all fifth and sixth rates were built under contract and were thus to a common class.

Fifth-rate frigates from 1719 to 1750

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40-gun fifth rates 1721–1733 *All thirteen were rebuilds of earlier 40-gun ships (''Torrington'' and ''Princess Louisa'' were renamed when rebuilt from the former ''Charles Galley''—first launched in 1679—and ''Launceston'' respectively), although ''Anglesea'' and ''Adventure'' were authorised as 'Great Repairs' rather than as rebuildings. ** 1721 – broken up 1742 ** 1723 – broken up 1744 ** 1724 – broken up 1749 ** 1724 – broken up 1744 ** 1725 – sunk as a breakwater 1742 ** 1725 – broken up 1741 ** 1726 – broken up 1741 ** 1726 – capsized 1744 ** 1726 – broken up 1744 ** 1727 – broken up 1744 ** 1728 – wrecked 1736 ** ''Torrington'' 1729 – broken up 1744 ** 1733 – sunk as a breakwater 1743 * 1733 Establishment 40-gun (later 44-gun) fifth rates 1736–1741 ** ''Eltham'' (1736) – broken up 1763 ** ''Dover'' (1741) – sold 1763 ** ''Folkestone'' (1741) – sold 1749 ** ''Faversham'' (1741) – sold 1749 ** ''Lynn'' (1741) – sold 1763 ** ''Gosport'' (1741) – broken up 1768 ** ''Sapphire'' (1741) –

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d to 32-gun frigate 1756–58, sold 1784 ** ''Hastings'' (1741) – broken up 1763 ** ''Liverpool'' (1741) – sold 1763 ** ''Kinsale'' (1741) – sold 1763 ** ''Adventure'' (1741) – razéed to 32-gun frigate 1756–58, sold 1770 ** ''Diamond'' (1741) – sold 1756 ** ''Launceston'' (1741) – sold 1784 ** ''Looe'' (1741) – wrecked 1744 * 1741 Establishment 44-gun ships 1742–1747 ** ''Anglesea'' (1742) – taken by the French 1745 ** ''Torrington'' (1743) – sold 1763 ** ''Hector'' (1743) – sold 1762 ** ''Roebuck'' (1743) – lent as a privateer 1763, sold 1764 ** ''Lark'' (1744) – sold 1757 ** ''Pearl'' (1744) – sold 1759 ** ''Mary Galley'' (1744) – used as breakwater 1764 ** ''Ludlow Castle'' (1744) – razéed to 24-gun frigate 1762, broken up 1771 ** ''Fowey'' (1744) – wrecked 1748 ** ''Looe'' (1745) – hulked 1750 ** ''Chesterfield'' (1745) – wrecked 1762 ** ''Poole'' (1745) – broken up 1765 ** ''Southsea Castle'' (1745) – converted to storeship 1760, lost 1762 ** ''Prince Edward'' (1745) – sold 1766 ** ''Anglesea'' (1746) – used as breakwater 1764 ** ''Thetis'' (1747) – converted to hospital ship 1757, sold 1767 * 1745 Establishment 44-gun ships 1747–1749 ** ''Prince Henry'' (1747) – broken up 1764 ** ''Assurance'' (1747) – wrecked 1753 ** ''Expedition'' (1747) – broken up 1764 ** ''Penzance'' (1747) – sold 1766 ** ''Crown'' (1747) – converted to Storeship 1757, sold 1770 ** ''Rainbow'' (1747) – fitted with an experimental all-carronade armament 1782, hulked 1784 ** ''Humber'' (1748) – wrecked 1762 ** ''Woolwich'' (1749) – sold 1762 * modified 1745 Establishment (lengthened by 6 ft) ** ''America'' (1749) – renamed ''Boston'' 1756, sold 1757

Sixth-rate frigates from 1719 to 1750

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

20-gun sixth rates 1732: ** HMS ''Sheerness'' 1732 ** HMS ''Dolphin'' 1732 * 1733 Establishment 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 **

1742 * HMS ''Wager'' 28-gun sixth rate purchased 1739 * Modified 1733 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1741 ** HMS ''Greyhound'' 1741 ** HMS ''Blandford'' 1741 * 1741 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1742–1746: ** HMS ''Lowestoffe'' 1742 ** HMS ''Aldborough'' 1743 ** HMS ''Alderney'' 1743 ** HMS ''Phoenix'' 1743 ** HMS ''Sheerness'' 1743 ** HMS ''Wager'' 1744 ** HMS ''Shoreham'' 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 20-gun sixth rates 1746. ** HMS ''Centaur'' 1746 ** HMS ''Deal Castle'' 1746 * HMS ''Nightingale'' 22-gun sixth rate 1746 * HMS ''Garland'' 20-gun sixth rate 1748 *

24-gun sixth rates 1746–1751, armed with two nine-pounder canons on the lower deck and 20 on the upper deck, two three-pounders on the quarterdeck ** HMS ''Arundel'' 1746 – sold 1765 ** HMS ''Queenborough'' 1747 – driven ashore on the Indian coast near

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by a hurricane on New Year's Day 1761 ** HMS ''Fowey'' 1749 – sunk by shore batteries at Yorktown on 10.10.1781 ** HMS ''Hind'' 1749 – sold 1784 ** HMS ''Sphinx'' 1748 – sold 1770 ** HMS ''Dolphin'' 1751 – broken up 1777 * Modified

24-gun sixth rate 1748, armed as the ships above ** HMS ''Boston'' 1748 – broken up 1752 * HMS ''Seahorse'' 24-gun sixth rate, designed by Jacob Acworth, 1748, armed with two nine-pounder canons on the lower deck and 22 on the upper deck, two three-pounders on the quarterdeck – sold 1784 * HMS ''Mermaid'' 24-gun sixth rate, designed by Joseph Allin, 1749, armed with 20 nine-pounder canons on the upper deck and four three-pounders on the quarterdeck – wrecked off the Coast of

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on 06.01.1760 * 28-gun sixth rates 1748 *Two nominally 24-gun ships – the ''Lyme'' and ''Unicorn'' – were built in 1747–1749 with 24 nine-pounders on the upper deck but also carried four smaller guns on the quarterdeck. There were no more guns on the lower deck that was lowered to the waterline; the pair were designated as 24-gun ships (disregarding the smaller guns) until 1756, when they were re-classed as 28-gun frigates. However other 24-gun and 20-gun ships continued to be built, with either 22- or 29-pounder guns on the upper deck. ** HMS ''Lyme'' 1748 – wrecked in the Baltic off the Swedish Coast on 18.10.1760 ** HMS ''Unicorn'' 1748 – broken up 1771

44-gun fifth rates from 1750 – by class

Those fifth-rate ships were not frigates in a stricter sense, being two-deckers, but they were mostly used in the same way, e.g. convoy protection. In addition they were too small to sail in the line of battle. Thus they are listed here. In the middle of the 18th century, those ships had a more powerful armament than the frigates at that time (these were nine and 12-pounders equipped), that consisted of 18-pounders on the gun deck. Later in the century, with the advent of the 18-pounder frigate (the first British 18-pounder armed frigate, HMS ''Flora'' (36), was launched in 1780), those ships became obsolete and ceased to being built in 1787, when the last one, HMS ''Sheerness'', was launched. Many continued to serve until after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, most of them as troop- or storeships. * ''Phoenix'' 1759 – wrecked 1780 * ''Roebuck'' class 1774–83 (Thomas Slade) ** HMS ''Roebuck'' 1774 – hospital ship 1790, troopship 1799, floating battery 1803, broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Romulus'' 1777 – taken by France 1781 ** HMS ''Actaeon'' 1778 – hulked 1793 ** HMS ''Janus'' 1778 – troopship 1789, wrecked 1800 ** HMS ''Charon'' (I) 1778 – sunk 1781 ** HMS ''Dolphin'' 1781 – hospital ship 1781, troopship 1800, storeship 1804, broken up 1817 ** HMS ''Ulysses'' 1779 – sold 1816 ** HMS ''Serapis'' (I) 1779 – taken by John Paul Jones' ''Bonhomme Richard'' 1779 ** HMS ''Endymion'' 1779 – lost 1790 ** HMS ''Assurance'' 1780 – troopship 1791, transport 1796, hulked 1799 ** HMS ''Argo'' 1781 – troopship 1791, sold 1816 ** HMS ''Diomede'' 1781 – lost 1795 ** HMS ''Guardian'' 1784 – sold 1791 ** HMS ''Mediator'' 1782 – storeship and renamed ''Camel'' 1788, broken up 1810 ** HMS ''Regulus'' 1785 – troopship 1800, broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Resistance'' 1782 – blown up 1798 ** HMS ''Serapis'' (II) 1782 – storeship 1798, broken up 1819 ** HMS ''Gladiator'' 1783 – hulked 1807 ** HMS ''Experiment'' 1784 – troopship, 1793, hulked 1805 ** HMS ''Charon'' (II) 1783 – hospital ship 1794, troopship 1800, broken up 1805 * ''Adventure'' class 1784–87 (William Hunt) ** HMS ''Adventure'' 1784 – troopship 1799, hulked 1801, broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Chichester'' 1785 – troopship 1787, storeship 1794, sold 1810 ** HMS ''Expedition'' 1784 – troopship 1798, hulked 1810, broken up 1817 ** HMS ''Gorgon'' 1785 – storeship 1793, floating battery 1805, broken up 1817 ** HMS ''Woolwich'' 1785 – troopship 1793, storeship 1798, troopship 1813, wrecked 1813 ** HMS ''Severn'' 1786 – wrecked 1804 ** HMS ''Dover'' 1786 – transport 1795, accidentally burnt and then broken up 1806 ** HMS ''Sheerness'' 1787 – completed as troopship, wrecked 1805

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 24 nine-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 26

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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 post ships

After 1750, the official Admiralty criteria for defining a frigate required a minimum battery of 28 carriage-mounted guns, including such guns which were mounted on the quarterdeck and forecastle. The Admiralty categorized the smaller sixth rates, of frigate-type construction, but carrying between 20 and 26 guns, as "post ships", but seagoing officers often referred to then as "frigates" even though this was not officially recognised. The post ships, generally of 20 or 24 guns, were in practice the continuation of the earlier sixth rates. The

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era post ships were later re-armed with (many being completed with) 32-pounder carronades instead of nine-pounder guns; after 1817 most of the survivors (except the ''Conway'' class), were re-classified as sloops. * ''Gibraltar'' class 20 guns, 1754–56; built to the lines of the French privateer ''Tygre'' captured in 1747. ** HMS ''Gibraltar'' 1754 – broken up 1773 ** HMS ''Biddeford'' 1756 – wrecked 1761 ** HMS ''Flamborough'' 1756 – sold 1772 ** HMS ''Aldborough'' 1756 – broken up 1772 ** HMS ''Kennington'' 1756 – broken up 1774 ** HMS ''Lively'' 1756 – captured by France 1778, recaptured 1781, sold 1784 ** HMS ''Mercury'' 1756 – wrecked 1777 ** HMS ''Scarborough'' 1756 – foundered 1780 * ''Seaford'' class 20 guns, 1754–57; built to the lines of HM Yacht ''Royal Caroline'' of 1749. ** HMS ''Seaford'' 1754 – sold 1784 ** HMS ''Rose'' 1757 – scuttled to block Savannah Bar 1779 ** HMS ''Glasgow'' 1757 – accidentally burned 1779 * ''Squirrel'' class 20 guns, 1755–56; like the ''Seaford'' class built to the lines of HMY ''Royal Caroline''. ** HMS ''Squirrel'' 1755 – sold 1783 ** HMS ''Deal Castle'' 1756 – lost off Puerto Rico in the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1780 * ''Sphinx'' class 20 guns 1775–81; designed by John Williams ** HMS ''Sphinx'' 1775 – broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Camilla'' 1776 – hulked 1809, sold 1831 ** HMS ''Daphne'' 1776 – taken by France 1795, retaken 1797, sold 1802 ** HMS ''Galatea'' 1776 – broken up 1783 ** HMS ''Ariadne'' 1776 – sold 1814 ** HMS ''Vestal'' 1777 – foundered off Newfoundland 1777 ** HMS ''Perseus'' 1776 – converted to bomb vessel 1798, broken up 1805 ** HMS ''Unicorn'' 1776 – captured by France 1780, recaptured 1781, broken up 1787 ** HMS ''Ariel'' 1777 – taken by French ''l'Amazone'' in 1779 ** HMS ''Narcissus'' 1781 – wrecked off New Providence 1796 * ''Porcupine'' class 24 guns, 1777–81; designed by John Williams ** HMS ''Porcupine'' 1777 – broken up 1805 ** HMS ''Pelican'' 1776 – wrecked in a hurricane near Jamaica 1781 ** HMS ''Eurydice'' 1781 – hulked as receiving ship 1814, broken up 1834 ** HMS ''Hyena'' 1778 – captured by the French 1793, retaken 1797, reclassed as 20-gun ship 1798, sold 1802 ** HMS ''Penelope'' 1778 – cast away or foundered in the West Indies in November 1779 ** HMS ''Amphitrite'' 1778 – wrecked off Livorno 1794 ** HMS ''Crocodile'' 1781 – wrecked on the Scilly Rocks off Prawle Point 1784 ** HMS ''Siren'' 1779 – wrecked near Beachy Head 1781 ** HMS ''Pandora'' 1779 – wrecked off the Coast of Queensland, Australia, in 1791 while carrying the surviving mutineers of HMS ''Bounty'' back to England for trial ** HMS ''Champion'' 1779 – hulked as receiving ship 1809, sold 1816 * HMS ''Myrmidon'' 22 guns 1781; built to the lines of ''Amazone'' a French privateer captured in 1745 – hulked 1798, broken up 1811 * HMS ''Squirrel'' 24 guns 1785; designed by Edward Hunt – hulked as a receiving ship 1812, sold 1817 * ''Banterer'' class 22 guns 1806–07; designed by William Rule ** HMS ''Banterer'' 1807 – wrecked in the Saint Laurence Stream 1808 ** HMS ''Crocodile'' 1806 – broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Daphne'' 1806 – sold 1816; became merchantman and last listed in 1824 ** HMS ''Cossack'' 1806 – broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Cyane'' 1806 – taken by USS ''Constitution'' 1815 ** HMS ''Porcupine'' 1807 – sold 1816; became mercantile ''Windsor Castle'' and was broken up at Mauritius in 1826 * ''Laurel'' class 22 guns 1806–12; designed by John Henslow ** HMS ''Laurel'' 1806 – taken by France 1808, retaken and renamed ''Laurestinus'' 1810, wrecked in the Bahamas 1813 ** HMS ''Boreas'' 1806 – wrecked on the Guernsey coast 1807 ** HMS ''Comus'' 1806 – wrecked at Newfoundland 1816 ** HMS ''Garland'' 1807 – sold 1817 ** HMS ''Perseus'' 1812 – hulked as receiving ship 1816, broken up 1850 ** HMS ''Volage'' 1807 – sold 1818 * ''Hermes'' class 20 guns 1811–16; flush-decked

s based on the lines of the French corvette ''Bonne Citoyenne'' (1794) taken in 1796; only the last two of the class were given quarterdecks and forecastles in 1820–21, making them post ships ** HMS ''Hermes'' 1811 – grounded and burnt by her crew near Mobile, Alabama, 1814 ** HMS ''Myrmidon'' 1813 – broken up 1823 ** HMS ''Ariadne'' 1816 – post ship (26 guns) 1820, hulked 1837, sold 1841 ** HMS ''Valorous'' 1816 – post ship (26 guns) 1821, broken up 1829 * ''Cyrus'' class flush-decked 20-gun sixth rates 1813–14; the design was based on HMS ''Myrmidon'' of the ''Hermes'' class above, so can be considered a development of that class. Since none of the class possessed a quarterdeck or forecastle, they were actually not post ships ** HMS ''Cyrus'' 1813 – sold 1823 ** HMS ''Medina'' 1813 – sold 1832 ** HMS ''Levant'' 1813 – captured by USS ''Constitution'' 1815, but was recaptured shortly afterwards; broken up 1820 ** HMS ''Esk'' 1813 – sold 1827 ** HMS ''Carron'' 1813 – wrecked near Puri, India 1820 ** HMS ''Tay'' 1813 – wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico 1816 ** HMS ''Slaney'' 1813 – 1830 hulked, broken up 1838 ** HMS ''Erne'' 1813 – lost 1819 lost ** HMS ''Leven'' 1813 – hulked 1833, broken up 1848 ** HMS ''Falmouth'' 1814 – sold 1825 ** HMS ''Cyrene'' 1814 – sold 1828 ** HMS ''Bann'' 1814 – sold 1829 ** HMS ''Spey'' 1814 – sold 1822 ** HMS ''Lee'' 1814 – broken up 1822 ** HMS ''Hind'' 1814 – sold 1829 ** HMS ''Larne'' 1814 – sold 1820 * ''Conway'' class 26-gun sixth rates 1814–17 (later re-rated 28-gun); designed by William Rule ** HMS ''Conway'' 1814 – sold 1825 ** HMS ''Mersey'' 1814 – hulked as receiving ship 1831, broken up 1852 ** HMS ''Eden'' 1814 – broken up 1833 ** HMS ''Tamar'' 1814 – hulked as coal depot 1831, sold 1837 ** HMS ''Dee'' 1814 – sold 1819 ** HMS ''Towey'' 1814 – broken up 1822 ** HMS ''Menai'' 1814 – hulked as receiving ship 1829, target ship 1852, broken up 1853 ** HMS ''Tyne'' 1814 – sold 1825 ** HMS ''Wye'' 1814 – hulked as convict hospital ship 1834, broken up 1852 ** HMS ''Tees'' 1817 – hulked as church ship 1826, broken up 1872

9-pounder armed frigates

Although previously rated as 24-gun ships (when their four quarterdeck-mounted three-pounders were not included in the count), ''Unicorn'' and ''Lyme'' were redefined as 28-gun frigates from 1756. The ''Lowestoffe'' and ''Coventry''-class frigates which followed were virtual copies of them, with slight improvements in design. Further 28-gun sixth rates, similarly armed with a main battery of 24 nine-pounder guns (and with four smaller carriage guns on the quarterdeck) continued to be built to evolving designs until the 1780s. * ''Lowestoffe'' class 28-gun sixth rates 1756; designed by

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based on the ''Lyme'' class of 1748 ** HMS ''Lowestoffe'' 1756 – wrecked in the

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1760 ** HMS ''Tartar'' 1756 – wrecked at

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(Haiti) 1797 * ''Coventry'' class 28-gun sixth rates 1757–85; designed by Thomas Slade based on ''Tartar'' of the ''Lowestoffe'' class above, so a further modification of the ''Lyme'' class ** HMS ''Coventry'' 1757 – taken by the French in the

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1783 ** HMS ''Lizard'' 1757 – hulked as hospital ship at

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1800, sold 1828 ** HMS ''Liverpool'' 1758 – wrecked on

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1778 ** HMS ''Maidstone'' 1758 – broken up 1794 ** HMS ''Active'' 1758 – taken by the French off

1778 ** HMS ''Levant'' 1758 – broken up 1780 ** HMS ''Cerberus'' 1758 – abandoned and burnt at

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1778 ** HMS ''Aquilon'' 1758 – sold 1776 ** HMS ''Griffin'' 1758 – wrecked on the shoals off

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1761 ** HMS ''Argo'' 1758 – broken up 1776 ** HMS ''Milford'' 1759 – sold 1785 ** HMS ''Guadeloupe'' 1763 – scuttled at Yorktown to prevent capture 1781. ** HMS ''Carysfort'' 1766 – sold 1813 * fir built ''Coventry'' class – due to the nature of the pine wood (fir or pine cannot be bent in tight angles), the design had to be fitted with a square tuck (i.e. flat) stern. ** HMS ''Boreas'' 1757 – sold 1770. ** HMS ''Hussar'' 1757 – stranded on the south coast of

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and taken by France 1762. ** HMS ''Shannon'' 1757 – broken up 1765. ** HMS ''Trent'' 1757 – sold 1764 ** HMS ''Actaeon'' 1757 – sold 1766 * modified ''Coventry'' class slightly modified (8½ inch greater width) revival of the ''Coventry'' design ** HMS ''Hind'' 1785 – broken up 1811 **HMS ''Laurel'' – cancelled 1783 * ''Mermaid'' class 28-gun sixth rates 1761–63; design by Thomas Slade, adapted from the lines of the French ''Abénakise'', captured 1757 ** HMS ''Mermaid'' 1761 – driven ashore and wrecked by a French squadron in

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1778 ** HMS ''Hussar'' 1763 – wrecked at

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1780 **

1763 – run ashore and burned off

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to avoid capture in 1782 * modified ''Mermaid'' class (keel lengthened by 8 5/8-inch) 1773–74 ** HMS ''Greyhound'' 1773 – wrecked on the South Sand near

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in 1781 ** HMS ''Triton'' 1773 – broken up 1796 ** HMS ''Boreas'' 1774 – hulked as slop ship at

1797, sold 1802 * ''Enterprise'' class 28-gun sixth rates 1773–87; 27 ships, designed by

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** HMS ''Siren'' 1773 – wrecked on the coast of

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1777 ** HMS ''Fox'' 1773 – taken by USS ''Hancock'' 1777, retaken by HMS ''Flora'' a month later, but then taken by the French ''Junon'' off Brest in 1778 ** HMS ''Enterprise'' 1774 – hulked as receiving ship at the

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1791, broken up 1807 ** HMS ''Surprise'' 1774 – sold 1783 ** HMS ''Actaeon'' 1775 – grounded at Charleston and burnt to avoid capture on 28 June 1776 ** HMS ''Proserpine'' 1777 – wrecked off

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in 1799 ** HMS ''Andromeda'' 1777 – capsized in the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1780 ** HMS ''Aurora'' 1777 – sold 1814 ** HMS ''Medea'' 1778 – hulked as a hospital ship at

in 1801 and sold 1805 ** HMS ''Pomona'' 1778 – renamed ''Amphitrite'' in 1795, broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Resource'' 1778 – converted to troopship in 1799, hulked as receiving ship at the Tower of London and renamed ''Enterprize'' in 1803, broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Sibyl'' 1779 – renamed ''Garland'' in 1795, lost off Madagascar on 26 July 1798 ** HMS ''Brilliant'' 1779 – broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Crescent'' 1779 – captured by the French frigates ''Gloire'' (1778) and ''Friponne'' (1780) on 20 June 1781 ** HMS ''Mercury'' 1779 – used as floating battery since 1803, converted to troopship in 1810, broken up 1814 ** HMS ''Pegasus'' 1779 – converted to troopship in 1800, hulked as receiving ship in 1814, sold 1816 ** HMS ''Cyclops'' 1779 – converted to troopship in 1800, hulked as receiving ship at

in 1807, sold 1814 ** HMS ''Vestal'' 1779 – converted to troopship in 1800, on lease to Trinity House from 1803 to 1810, hulked as prison ship at

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in 1814, sold 1816 ** HMS ''Laurel'' 1779 – driven ashore and disintegrated during the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1780 ** HMS ''Nemesis'' 1780 – taken by the French in 1795, retaken in 1796, converted to troopship in 1812, sold 1814 ** HMS ''Thisbe'' 1783 – converted to troopship in 1800, sold 1815 ** HMS ''Rose'' 1783 – wrecked on Rocky Point,

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, on 28 June 1794 ** HMS ''Hussar'' 1784 – wrecked near Île Bas on 24 December 1796 ** HMS ''Dido'' 1784 – converted to troopship in 1800, hulked as Army prison ship at Portsmouth in 1804, sold 1817 ** HMS ''Circe'' 1785 – wrecked near Yarmouth on 6 November 1803 ** HMS ''Lapwing'' 1785 – hulked as salvage ship at Cork in 1810, residential ship at Pembroke from 1813, broken up 1828 ** HMS ''Alligator'' 1787 – hulked as salvage ship at Cork in 1810, sold 1814

12-pounder armed frigates

Almost all of the following were of the 32-gun type (armed with 26 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and six smaller guns on the quarterdeck and forecastle); one class (the ''Venus'' class of 1757–58) had 36 guns (with 26 12-pounder guns on the upper deck and 10 smaller guns on the quarterdeck and forecastle) * ''Venus'' class 36-gun fifth rates 1757–58; designed by Thomas Slade ** HMS ''Venus'' 1758 – reclassed as a 32 in 1792, renamed ''Heroine'' in 1809, hulked as convict ship in 1824, sold 1828. ** HMS ''Pallas'' 1757 – ran aground on

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and sank 1783 ** HMS ''Brilliant'' 1757 – sold 1776 * ''Southampton'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1757–59; designed by

** HMS ''Southampton'' 1757 – wrecked in the Bahamas off Conception Island on 27 November 1812 ** HMS ''Minerva'' 1759 – taken by the French frigate ''Concorde'' in 1778, retaken by HMS ''Courageux'' in 1781 ** HMS ''Vestal'' 1757 – broken up 1775 ** HMS ''Diana'' 1757 – sold 1793 * ''Richmond'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1757–58 (batch 1), 1762–63 (batch 2); designed by William Bately ** HMS ''Richmond'' 1757 – taken by the French in the

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in 1781 ** HMS ''Juno'' 1757 – abandoned and burnt at

to prevent capture in 1778 ** HMS ''Thames'' 1758 – taken by the French frigate ''Carmagnole'' (1793) near Gibraltar in 1793, retaken by HMS ''Santa Margarita'' in 1796, broken up 1803 ** HMS ''Lark'' 1762 – abandoned and burnt at Rhode Island together with HMS ''Juno'' ** HMS ''Boston'' 1762 – broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Jason'' 1763 – sold 1785 * ''Alarm'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1758–66; designed by Thomas Slade ** HMS ''Alarm'' 1758 – broken up 1812 ** HMS ''Eolus'' (or ''Aeolus'') 1758 – hulked as receiving ship at

in 1796, renamed ''Guernsey'' in 1800, broken up 1801 ** HMS ''Stag'' 1758 – broken up 1783 ** HMS ''Pearl'' 1762 – hulked as a slop ship at

in 1803, renamed Prothee in 1825, sold 1832 ** HMS ''Glory'' 1763 – renamed ''Apollo'' in 1774, broken up 1786 ** HMS ''Emerald'' 1762 – broken up 1793. (According to Rif Winfield – British Warships in The Age of Sail 1714– 1792. This is a "Niger Class" ship) ** HMS ''Aurora'' 1766 – lost with all hands on her way to the West Indies in 1769 * ''Niger'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1759–64; Thomas Slade design, "very similar" to the ''Alarm'' class above ** HMS ''Niger'' 1759 – converted to troopship in 1799, reclassed as a 28-gun sixth rate in 1804, sold 1814 ** HMS ''Montreal'' 1761 – taken by the French off

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on 29 April 1779 ** HMS ''Quebec'' 1760 – caught fire and blew up while in action with the French frigate ''Surveillante'' (1778) on 5 October 1779 ** HMS ''Winchelsea'' 1764 – converted to troopship in 1800, mooring hulk at Sheerness in 1803, sold 1814 * HMS ''Tweed'' 32-gun fifth rate 1759; one off design by Sir Thomas Slade, to the lengthened lines of the ''Tartar'' (28 guns) of ''Lowestoffe'' class (nine-pounder armed) above and built to lighter scantlings according to the French practice, sold 1776 * ''Lowestoffe'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1761–74; Thomas Slade design, like ''Mermaid'' class (nine-pounder armed) above, adapted from the French Frigate ''Abénakise'', captured in 1757 ** HMS ''Lowestoffe'' 32-gun fifth rate 1761 – wrecked off Ingua on 10 August 1801 ** HMS ''Orpheus'' 1773 – abandoned and burnt at

to prevent capture together with HMS ''Lark'' and ''Juno'' on 5 August 1778 ** HMS ''Diamond'' 1774 – sold 1784 * ''Amazon'' (''Thetis'') class 32-gun fifth rates 1773–87; 18 ships, designed by John Williams. ** HMS ''Thetis'' 1773 – ran onto a rock and sank near

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on 12 May 1781. ** HMS ''Amazon'' 1773 – broken up 1794 ** HMS ''Ambuscade'' 1773 – taken by the French corvette ''Bayonnaise'' in 1798, retaken by HMS ''Victory'' in 1803 – broken up 1810 ** HMS ''Cleopatra'' 1779 – broken up 1814 ** HMS ''Amphion'' 1780 – accidentally caught fire and blew up at

on 22 September 1796 ** HMS ''Orpheus'' 1780 – wrecked on a coral reef in the West Indies on 23 January 1807 ** HMS ''Juno'' 1780 – broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Success'' 1781 – taken by the French in the Mediterranean on 13 February 1801, retaken seven months later by HMS ''Pomone'' on 2 September, converted to troopship in 1812, hulked as prison ship at Halifax in 1813, broken up 1820 ** HMS ''Iphigenia'' 1780 – hulked as prison hospital ship at

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in 1798, converted to troopship in 1801, accidentally burnt in the same year ** HMS ''Andromache'' 1781 – broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Syren'' (or ''Siren'') 1782 – hulked as lazaretto at Pembroke in 1805, broken up 1822 ** HMS ''Iris'' 1783 – on lease to

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between 1803 and 1805, hulked as receiving ship at Yarmouth in 1811, presented to

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as a training ship, broken up 1833 ** HMS ''Greyhound'' 1783 – wrecked in the

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on 4 October 1808 ** HMS ''Meleager'' 1785 – wrecked on Triangle Bank in the

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on 9 June 1801 ** HMS ''Castor'' 1785 – sold 1819 **

1785 – on lease to Trinity House from 1803 to 1806, wrecked in action with a Senegalese fort on 11 June 1809 ** HMS ''Terpsichore'' 1785 – hulked as receiving ship at Chatham in 1811, broken up 1813 ** HMS ''Blonde'' 1787 – hulked for stationary service at

in 1803, sold 1805 * ''Active'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1779–84; designed by Edward Hunt ** HMS ''Active'' 1780 – wrecked in the

on 15 July 1796 ** HMS ''Daedalus'' 1780 – on lease to Trinity House from 1803 to 1806, broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Mermaid'' 1784 – converted to troopship in 1811, broken up 1815 ** HMS ''Cerberus'' 1779 – wrecked near

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on 30 April 1783 ** HMS ''Fox'' 1780 – converted to troopship in 1812, broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Astraea'' (or ''Astrea'') 1781 – fitted as troopship between 1800 and 1805, wrecked on rocks off

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on 24 May 1808 ** HMS ''Ceres'' 1781 – hulked as receiving ship at

in 1803, transferred to Chatham as harbour flagship in 1812, converted into a victualling depot in 1816 and broken up 1830 ** HMS ''Quebec'' 1781 – temporarily hulked at

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between 1803 and 1805, hulked as receiving ship at Sheerness in 1813, broken up 1816 * ''Andromeda'' or ''Hermione'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1782–86; designed by Edward Hunt ** HMS ''Andromeda'' 1784 – broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Hermione'' 1782 – seized by mutineers on 22 September 1797, given to the Spanish garrison at

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, cut out of the harbour and retaken on 25 October 1799, renamed ''Retaliation'' shortly after, renamed Retribution in 1800, presented to Trinity House in 1803 ** HMS ''Druid'' 1783 – fitted as troopship from 1798 to 1805, broken up 1813 ** HMS ''Penelope'' 1783 – broken up 1797 ** HMS ''Aquilon'' 1786 – broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Blanche'' 1786 – wrecked in the entrance to the

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* HMS ''Heroine'' 32-gun fifth rate 1783; purchased on the stocks from Adams of Bucklers Hard in 1782 – converted to troopship in 1800, hulked 1803 * ''Maidstone'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1795–96; designed by John Henslow, fir-built version of the ''Cerberus'' (or ''Alcmene'') class of 18-pounder frigates of 1794 ** HMS ''Maidstone'' 1795 – broken up 1810 ** HMS ''Shannon'' 1796 – sold 1802 * HMS ''Triton'' 32-gun fifth rate 1796; experimental "Admiralty" design by rear-admiral

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, the Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty; fir-built, the ship was originally intended to carry 18-pounders but was considered too weak for the armament – hulked as receiving ship at Woolwich in 1803, transferred to Plymouth in 1810, sold 1814 * ''Thames'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1804–06; design modified from William Bately's ''Richmond'' class of 1757 ** HMS ''Circe'' 1804 – sold 1814 ** HMS ''Pallas'' 1804 – wrecked in the

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on 18 December 1810 ** HMS ''Thames'' 1805 – converted to troopship in 1814, broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Jason'' 1804 – broken up 1815 ** HMS ''Hebe'' 1804 – sold 1813 ** HMS ''Minerva'' 1805 – broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Alexandria'' 1806 – hulked as receiving ship at

in 1817, broken up 1818 **HMS ''Medea'' – cancelled 1804

18-pounder armed frigates

In general, the following were either 36-gun type (armed with 26 18-pounder guns on the upper deck and 10 smaller guns on the quarterdeck and forecastle) or 38-gun type (with 28 18-pounder guns on the upper deck and 10 smaller guns on the quarterdeck and forecastle); however, one class of smaller ships had just 32 guns (with 26 18-pounder guns on the upper deck and just six smaller guns on the quarterdeck and forecastle) * ''Flora'' class 36-gun fifth rates 1780, designed by

** HMS ''Flora'' 1780 – wrecked and destroyed on the Dutch coast on 19 January 1808 ** HMS ''Thalia'' 1782 – broken up 1814 ** HMS ''Crescent'' 1784 – wrecked on the Coast of

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on 6 December 1808 ** HMS ''Romulus'' 1785 – converted to troopship in 1799, hulked as hospital ship at

in 1813, broken up 1816 * ''Minerva'' class 38-gun fifth rates 1780–82, designed by Edward Hunt ** HMS ''Minerva'' 1780 – broken up 1803 ** HMS ''Arethusa'' 1781 – broken up 1814 ** HMS ''Phaeton'' 1782 – Sold 1827 * HMS ''Latona'' 38-gun fifth rate 1781, designed by John Williams – converted to troopship 1810, hulked as receiving ship at

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1813, sold 1816 * HMS ''Thetis'' 38-Gun fifth rate 1782, designed by Edward Hunt, modified from the ''Minerva'' class above – used as troopship between 1800 and 1805, sold 1814 * ''Perseverance'' class 36-gun fifth rates 1781–83, designed by Edward Hunt ** HMS ''Perseverance'' 1781 – hulked as receiving ship circa 1806, sold 1823 ** HMS ''Phoenix'' 1783 – wrecked near

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on 20 February 1816 ** HMS ''Inconstant'' 1783 – used as troopship between 1798 and 1806, broken up 1817 ** HMS ''Leda'' 1783 – capsized in a squall and foundered off

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11 December 1795 * HMS ''Melampus'' 36-gun fifth rate 1785, designed by Edward Hunt – sold to the Dutch Navy in 1815 * HMS ''Beaulieu'' 40-gun fifth rate 1791 – purchased on the stocks in June 1790 from Adams of Bucklers Hard – broken up 1806 * ''Pallas'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1793–94; designed by John Henslow ** HMS ''Pallas'' 1793 – wrecked on Mount Batten Point, Plymouth on 4 April 1798 ** HMS ''Stag'' 1794 – wrecked in

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Bay, Spain on 6 September 1800 ** HMS ''Unicorn'' 1794 – broken up 1815 * ''Artois'' class 38-gun fifth rates 1794–97; designed by John Henslow ** HMS ''Artois'' 1794 – wrecked near

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on 31 July 1797 ** HMS ''Diana'' 1794 – sold to the Dutch Navy in 1815 ** HMS ''Apollo'' 1794 – wrecked on the Haak Sands off the coast of Holland on 7 January 1799 ** HMS ''Diamond'' 1794 – broken up 1812 ** HMS ''Jason'' 1794 – wrecked near Brest on 13 October 1798 ** HMS ''Seahorse'' 1794 – broken up 1819 ** HMS ''Ethalion'' 1797 – wrecked on rocks off

Penmarch Penmarch (, ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany, northwestern France.fir-built ''Artois'' class with alterations necessary for fir wood, notably the flat, square tuck stern ** HMS ''Clyde'' (I) 1796 – taken to pieces for rebuilding in 1805 ** HMS ''Tamar'' (or ''Tamer'') 1796 – broken up 1810 ** HMS ''Clyde'' (II) 1806 – rebuilt from the previous ship of that name, laid up in 1810, sold 1814 * ''Cerberus'' (or ''Alcmene'') class 32-gun fifth rates 1794, designed by John Henslow ** HMS ''Cerberus'' 1794 – sold 1814 ** HMS ''Alcmene'' 1794 – wrecked off

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on 29 April 1809. ** HMS ''Galatea'' 1794 – broken up 1809 ** HMS ''Lively'' 1794 – wrecked near Rota Point, Cadiz on 12 April 1798 * ''Phoebe'' class 36-gun fifth rates 1795–1800, lengthened version of William Hunt's ''Perseverance'' class of 1780 ** HMS ''Phoebe'' 1795 – hulked as receiving ship at

1826, sold 1841 ** HMS ''Dryad'' 1795 – hulked as receiving ship at

1838, broken up 1860 ** HMS ''Caroline'' 1795 – hulked as salvage vessel at Portsmouth 1813, broken up 1815 ** HMS ''Doris'' 1795 – wrecked in

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on 21 January 1805 ** HMS ''Fortunee'' 1800 – sold 1818 * ''Amazon'' class 36-gun fifth rates 1795–96, designed by William Rule ** HMS ''Amazon'' 1795 – hit a sandbank and was abandoned three hours later during the action against the French 74-gun ship ''Droits de l'Homme'' in Audierne Bay,

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on 14 January 1797 ** HMS ''Emerald'' 1795 – hulked as receiving ship at Portsmouth in 1822, broken up 1836 * fir-built ''Amazon'' class with alterations necessary for fir wood, notably the flat, square tuck stern ** HMS ''Trent'' 1796 – hospital ship laid up at

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in 1803, hulked 1815, broken up 1823 ** 1796 – in

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in 1803 until sold for breaking up in 1814 * HMS ''Naiad'' 38-gun fifth rate 1797, designed by William Rule – hulked as a coal depot at

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, Peru in 1847, sold 1866 * HMS ''Acasta'' 40-gun fifth rate 1797, designed by William Rule – broken up 1821 * HMS ''Boadicea'' 38-gun fifth rate 1797, built to the lines of the French ''Impérieuse'', taken in 1793 – broken up 1858 * HMS ''Sirius'' 36-gun fifth rate 1797, built to the lines of the French ''Minerve'', taken in 1794 and renamed ''San Fiorenzo'' – grounded at Mauritius and destroyed to prevent capture 1810 * HMS ''Hydra'' 38-gun fifth rate 1797; built to the lines of the French ''Melpomène'', captured in 1794, a sister ship to ''Minerve'' and ''Impérieuse'' above – converted to troopship 1813, sold 1820 * ''Amazon'' class 38-gun fifth rates 1799, designed by William Rule ** HMS ''Amazon'' 1799 – broken up 1817 ** HMS ''Hussar'' 1799 – wrecked in the Bay of Biscay in February 1804 * HMS ''Active'' 38-gun fifth rate 1799; designed by John Henslow – hulked as receiving ship 1825, renamed ''Argo'' 1833, broken up 1860. * ''Leda'' class 38-gun fifth rates 1800–19, built to the lines of the French ''Hébé'' of 1782 ** HMS ''Leda'' 1800 – wrecked at the mouth of

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on 31 January 1808 ** HMS ''Pomone'' 1805 – wrecked on

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on 14 October 1811 ** HMS ''Shannon'' 1806 – hulked as receiving ship at

in 1831, renamed ''Saint Lawrence'' in 1844, broken up 1859 ** HMS ''Leonidas'' 1807 – hulked as powder hulk at Sheerness in 1872, sold 1894 ** HMS ''Briton'' 1812 – hulked as convict ship at

in 1841, broken up 1860 ** HMS ''Surprise'' 1812 – hulked as convict ship at

in 1822, sold 1837 ** HMS ''Tenedos'' 1812 – hulked as convict ship at

in 1843, converted to accommodation ship in 1863, broken up 1875 ** HMS ''Lacedemonian'' 1812 – broken up 1822 ** HMS ''Lively'' 1813 – hulked as receiving ship 1831, sold 1863 ** HMS ''Diamond'' 1816 – accidentally burnt at Portsmouth on 18 April 1827 ** HMS ''Amphitrite'' 1816 –

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d to a 26-gun

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, transferred to the Coast Guard in 1857 ** HMS ''Trincomalee'' 1817 – Teak built, cut down to a 26-gun corvette in 1847, hulked as training ship for volunteers at

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in 1861, sold 1897 to Wheatley Cobb at Falmouth, became training ship ''Foudroyant'', still afloat as museum ship under her original name at

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** HMS ''Thetis'' 1817 – wrecked off

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, Brazil, on 5 December 1830 ** HMS ''Arethusa'' 1817 – hulked as lazaretto at

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in 1836, renamed ''Bacchus'' in 1844, transferred to

in 1850, and transformed to coal depot in 1852, sold for breaking in 1883 ** HMS ''Blanche'' 1819 – hulked as receiving ship at Portsmouth in 1833, sold for breaking in 1865 ** HMS ''Fisgard'' 1819 – hulked as harbour flagship at

in 1847, broken up 1879 *modified ''Leda'' class 46-gun fifth rates 1820–30 ** HMS ''Venus'' 1820 – hulked and lent to the Marine Society in 1848, broken up 1865 ** HMS ''Melampus'' 1820 – transferred to the Coastguard at

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in 1857, returned to the Navy at Portsmouth in 1866, used as an ordnance store for the War Office until 1891, sold 1906 ** HMS ''Minerva'' 1820 – broken up 1895 ** HMS ''Latona'' 1821 – hulked as mooring vessel at

in 1868, powder depot at Portsmouth in 1872, broken up 1875 ** HMS ''Nereus'' 1821 – hulked as coal depot at Valparaiso in 1843, sold 1879 ** HMS ''Diana'' 1822 – hulked as receiving ship at Sheerness in 1868, broken up 1874 ** HMS ''Hebe'' 1826 – hulked as receiving ship at Woolwich in 1839, transferred to Sheerness for breaking in 1872 ** HMS ''Hamadryad'' 1823 – hulked as hospital ship at

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in 1866, sold 1905 ** HMS ''Amazon'' 1821 – cut down to a 26-gun corvette in 1845, sold 1863 ** HMS ''Aeolus'' (or ''Eolus'') 1825 – hulked as stores depot at Sheerness in 1846, transferred to

as accommodation ship in 1855, transformed into a lazaretto in 1761, broken up 1886 ** HMS ''Thisbe'' 1824 – hulked as floating church at

1863, sold 1892 ** HMS ''Cerberus'' 1827 – broken up 1866 ** HMS ''Circe'' 1827 – hulked as accommodation ship 1866, swimming bath 1885, renamed ''Impregnable IV'', sold for breaking in 1922 ** HMS ''Clyde'' 1827 – hulked as RNR training ship at

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in 1870, sold 1904 ** HMS ''Thames'' 1823 – hulked as convict ship at

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in 1841, transferred to

in 1844, sunk in 1863, wreck subsequently sold for breaking ** HMS ''Fox'' 1829 – converted to screw propulsion in 1856, broken up 1882 ** HMS ''Unicorn'' 1824 – never fitted for sea, hulked as training ship for the RNR at

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in 1860 and still afloat there as museum ship ** HMS ''Daedalus'' 1826 – cut down to a corvette in 1844, hulked as training ship for the RNR at

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in 1861, sold for breaking in 1911 ** HMS ''Proserpine'' 1830 – sold 1864 ** HMS ''Mermaid'' 1825 – hulked as Army powder ship at

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in 1858, returned to the Navy and used as a powder depot at

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in 1863, bruken up 1875 ** HMS ''Mercury'' 1826 – hulked as coal depot at

in 1862, transferred to

in 1873, sold 1906 ** HMS ''Penelope'' 1829 – converted to paddle frigate in 1843, sold 1864 ** HMS ''Thalia'' 1830 – hulked as Roman Catholic chapel ship at

in 1855, broken up 1867 * ''Cydnus'' class 38-gun fifth rates, eight pine-built ships (essentially identical to the ''Leda'' class, with the exception of a flat stern, necessary for "fir-built" ships), 1813 ** HMS ''Cydnus'' 1813 – broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Eurotas'' 1813 – broken up 1817 ** HMS ''Niger'' 1813 – broken up 1820 ** HMS ''Meander'' 1813 – broken up 1817 ** HMS ''Pactolus'' 1813 – broken up 1818 ** HMS ''Tiber'' 1813 – broken up 1820 ** HMS ''Araxes'' 1813 – broken up 1817 ** HMS ''Tanais'' 1813 – broken up 1819 **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 * ''Penelope'' class 36-gun fifth rates 1798–1800, designed by John Henslow ** HMS ''Penelope'' 1798 – troopship in 1814, wrecked in the

in 1815 ** HMS ''Amethyst'' 1799 – wrecked and subsequently broken up 1811 ** HMS ''Jason'' 1800 – wrecked in 1801 * HMS ''Lavinia'' 44-gun fifth rate 1806, designed by Jean-Louis Barrallier – hulked as lazaretto in

in 1836, coal depot at

in 1852, sunk in

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after collision with HAPAG Ship ''Cimbria'' * ''Amphion'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1798–1809, designed by William Rule. ** HMS ''Amphion'' 1798 – breakwater 1820 ** HMS ''Aeolus'' 1801 – broken up 1817 ** HMS ''Medusa'' 1801 – hulked as hospital ship at

in 1813, broken up 1816 ** HMS ''Proserpine'' 1807 – taken by the French ''Pénélope'' and ''Pauline'' off

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on 28 February 1809 ** HMS ''Nereus'' 1809 – broken up 1817 * ''Narcissus'' class 32-gun fifth rates 1801–1808, designed by John Henslow ** HMS ''Narcissus'' 1801 – hulked as convict ship at

in 1823, sold 1837 ** HMS ''Tartar'' 1801 – wrecked in the

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on 18 August 1811 ** HMS ''Cornelia'' 1808 – broken up 1814 **HMS ''Siren'' – cancelled 1806 **HMS ''Doris'' – cancelled 1806 * ''Apollo'' class, 27 ships, 36-gun fifth rates 1799–1819, designed by William Rule ** HMS ''Apollo'' 1799 – wrecked near Cabo Mondego (Portugal) in April 1804 **HMS Blanche (1800), HMS ''Blanche'' 1800 – taken by the French 40-gun 18-pounder Frigate French frigate Topaze (1805), ''Topaze'' in July 1805 **HMS Euryalus (1803), HMS ''Euryalus'' 1803 – paid off in March 1825 **HMS Semiramis (1808), HMS ''Semiramis'' 1808 – guardship at Portsmouth in 1821, cut down to 24-gun corvette in 1827, broken up in November 1844 **HMS Owen Glendower (1808), HMS ''Owen Glendower'' 1808 – convict ship at Gibraltar in October 1842, receiving ship athere in 1880, sold in 1884 **HMS Curacoa (1809), HMS ''Curacoa'' 1809 – cut down to 24-gun corvette in 1831, broken up in March 1849 **HMS Saldanha (1809), HMS ''Saldanha'' 1809 – wrecked and sank with all hands off Lough Swilly on 4 December 1811 **HMS Malacca (1809), HMS ''Malacca'' 1809 – paid off in June 1815, broken up in March 1816 **HMS Orpheus (1809), HMS ''Orpheus'' 1809 – laid up at Chatham in September 1816, broken up in August 1819 **HMS Theban (1809), HMS ''Theban'' 1809 – broken up in May 1817 **HMS Leda (1809), HMS ''Leda'' 1809 – sold in April 1817 **HMS Manilla (1809), HMS ''Manilla'' 1809 – wrecked on the Haak Sands off the

at Callantsoog on 28 January 1812 **HMS Belvidera (1809), HMS ''Belvidera'' 1809 – store depot at Portsmouth in 1846, receiving ship in 1852, sold in July 1906 **HMS Hotspur (1810), HMS ''Hotspur'' 1810 – in ordinary at Portsmouth in November 1815, broken up in January 1821 **HMS Astraea (1810), HMS ''Astraea'' 1810 – broken up in 1851 **HMS Galatea (1810), HMS ''Galatea'' 1810 – receiving ship and coal depot on Jamaica in 1839, broken up in 1849 **HMS Havannah (1811), HMS ''Havannah'' 1811 – cut down to 24-gun corvette in 1845, training ship at Cardiff, sold for breaking in 1905 **HMS Maidstone (1811), HMS ''Maidstone'' 1811 – receiving ship at Portsmouth in August 1832, coal depot there in 1838, broken up in January 1867 **HMS Stag (1812), HMS ''Stag'' 1812 – laid up at Plymouth in November 1814, broken up in September 1821 **HMS Magicienne (1812), HMS ''Magicienne'' 1812 – broken up in March 1845 **HMS Barrosa (1812), HMS ''Barrosa'' 1812 – laid up in September 1815, receiving ship and ordnance depot at Portsmouth in 1823, sold in 1841 **HMS Dartmouth (1813), HMS ''Dartmouth'' 1813 – paid off in March 1830, broken up in November 1854 **HMS Creole (1813), HMS ''Creole'' 1813 – harbour service at Chatham in 1833, broken up in August of the same year **HMS Tartar (1814), HMS ''Tartar'' 1814 – receiving ship at Sheerness in March 1830, broken up in September 1859 **HMS Brilliant (1814), HMS ''Brilliant'' 1814 – training ship in 1860, renamed ''Briton'' in 1889, sold for breaking in 1908 **HMS Pallas (1816), HMS ''Pallas'' 1816 – coal depot at Plymouth in November 1836, sold in January 1862 **HMS Blonde (1819), HMS ''Blonde'' 1819 – completed to a new 46-gun design *Aigle class frigate, ''Aigle'' class 36-gun fifth rates, 1801, designed by John Henslow **HMS Aigle (1801), HMS ''Aigle'' 1801 **HMS Resistance (1801), HMS ''Resistance'' 1801 *HMS Ethalion (1802), HMS ''Ethalion'' 36-gun fifth rate 1802 *Lively class frigate, ''Lively'' class 38-gun fifth rates 1804–13, designed by William Rule **HMS Lively (1804), HMS ''Lively'' 1804 **HMS Resistance (1805), HMS ''Resistance'' 1805 **HMS Apollo (1805), HMS ''Apollo'' 1805 **HMS Hussar (1807), HMS ''Hussar'' 1807 **HMS Statira (1807), HMS ''Statira'' 1807 **HMS Horatio (1807), HMS ''Horatio'' 1807 **HMS Spartan (1806), HMS ''Spartan'' 1806 **HMS Undaunted (1807), HMS ''Undaunted'' 1807 **HMS Menelaus (1810), HMS ''Menelaus'' 1810 **HMS Nisus (1810), HMS ''Nisus'' 1810 **HMS Macedonian (1810), HMS ''Macedonian'' 1810 **HMS Crescent (1810), HMS ''Crescent'' 1810 **HMS Bacchante (1811), HMS ''Bacchante'' 1811 **HMS Nymphe (1812), HMS ''Nymphe'' 1812 **HMS Sirius (1813), HMS ''Sirius'' 1813 **HMS Laurel (1813), HMS ''Laurel'' 1813 *HMS Forte (1814), HMS ''Forte'' 38-gun fifth rate 1814, built to the Lines of the French HMS Révolutionnaire (1794), ''Révolutionnaire'', captured in 1794 – broken up 1844 * ''Perseverance'' class 36-gun fifth rates 1803–11 (a revival of the class of 1781–83 – see above) **HMS Tribune (1803), HMS ''Tribune'' 1803 – cut down to a 24-gun corvette in 1833, lost near Tarragona on 28 November 1839 **HMS Shannon (1803), HMS ''Shannon'' 1803 – run ashore near La Hogue and burnt to avoid capture on 10 December 1803 **HMS Meleager (1806), HMS ''Meleager'' 1806 – wrecked on Bare Bush Key east of

on 30 July 1808 **HMS Iphigenia (1808), HMS ''Iphigenia'' 1806 – presented to

as training ship in 1833, broken up 1851 **HMS Orlando (1811), HMS ''Orlando'' 1811 – hulked as hospital ship at Trincomalee in 1819, sold 1824 **HMS ''Lowestoffe'' – cancelled 1805 *Perseverance-class frigate, teak-built ''Perseverance'' class – same as above but built from teak wood in Bombay dockyard **HMS Salsette (1805), HMS ''Salsette'' 1805 – hulked as lazaretto at Pembroke in 1831, receiving ship at

in 1835, broken up 1874 **HMS Doris (1808), HMS ''Doris'' 1807 – sold at Valparaiso 1829 *HMS Hyperion (1807), HMS ''Hyperion'' 32-gun fifth rate 1807, designed by John Henslow on the basis of the French French frigate Magicienne (1778), ''Magicienne'' of 1778 *HMS Bucephalus (1808), HMS ''Bucephalus'' 32-gun fifth rate 1808, designed by William Rule *HMS Pyramus (1810), HMS ''Pyramus'' 36-gun fifth rate 1810, built to the lines of the French French frigate Belle Poule (1766), ''Belle Poule'' of 1765 *Purchased ships of 1804–05 (all teak-built in India) **Sir Edward Hughes (1784 EIC ship), HMS ''Sir Edward Hughes'' 1804 **HMS Duncan (1805), HMS ''Duncan'' 1805 **HMS Howe (1805), HMS ''Howe'' 1805 *Scamander class frigate, ''Scamander'' class 36-gun fifth rates, 10 pine-built ships, 1813–14 **HMS Eridanus (1813), HMS ''Eridanus'' 1813 **HMS Orontes (1813), HMS ''Orontes'' 1813 **HMS Scamander (1813), HMS ''Scamander'' 1813 **HMS Tagus (1813), HMS ''Tagus'' 1813 **HMS Ister (1813), HMS ''Ister'' 1813 **HMS Tigris (1813), HMS ''Tigris'' 1813 **HMS Euphrates (1813), HMS ''Euphrates'' 1813 **HMS Hebrus (1813), HMS ''Hebrus'' 1813 **HMS Granicus (1813), HMS ''Granicus'' 1813 **HMS Alpheus (1814), HMS ''Alpheus'' 1814 *Seringapatam class frigate, ''Seringapatam'' class 46-gun fifth rates, 1819–40 **HMS Seringapatam (1819), HMS ''Seringapatam'' 1819 **HMS Madagascar (1822), HMS ''Madagascar'' 1822 **HMS Druid (1825), HMS ''Druid'' 1825 **HMS Nemesis (1826), HMS ''Nemesis'' 1826 **HMS Africaine (1827), HMS ''Africaine'' 1827 **HMS Leda (1828), HMS ''Leda'' 1828 **HMS Hotspur (1828), HMS ''Hotspur'' 1828 **HMS Eurotas (1829), HMS ''Eurotas'' 1829 **HMS Andromeda (1829), HMS ''Andromeda'' 1829 **HMS Seahorse (1830), HMS ''Seahorse'' 1830 **HMS Stag (1830), HMS ''Stag'' 1830 **HMS Forth (1833), HMS ''Forth'' 1833 **HMS Maeander (1840), HMS ''Maeander'' 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 razees 44-gun (converted from 64-gun

in 1794) **HMS Indefatigable (1784), HMS ''Indefatigable'' converted 1794 **HMS Anson (1781), HMS ''Anson'' converted 1794 **HMS Magnanime (1780), HMS ''Magnanime'' converted 1794 *HMS Endymion (1797), HMS ''Endymion'' 40 guns 1797; later classed as 50-gun frigate; built to the lines of the French French frigate Pomone (1785), ''Pomone'' of 1785 (captured 1794) – broken up 1868 *Endymion class frigate, ''Endymion'' class 40-gun (later classed as 50-gun) "fir-built" (actually pitch pine-built) fifth rates 1813–14 **HMS Severn (1813), HMS ''Severn'' 1813 – sold 1825 **HMS Liffey (1813), HMS ''Liffey'' 1813 – broken up 1827 **HMS Liverpool (1814), HMS ''Liverpool'' 1814 – sold 1822 **HMS Glasgow (1814), HMS ''Glasgow'' 1814 – broken up 1828 **HMS Forth (1814), HMS ''Forth'' 1814 – broken up 1819 *HMS Cambrian (1797), HMS ''Cambrian'' 40-gun fifth rate 1797; designed by John Henslow – wrecked in the Mediterranean 1828 *HMS Leander (1813), HMS ''Leander'' 50-gun (later 60-gun) fourth rate 1813; designed by William Rule – broken up 1830 *HMS Newcastle (1813), HMS ''Newcastle'' 50-gun (later 60-gun) fourth rate 1813; design by Jean-Louis Barrallier – hulked 1824, no records after 1827 *HMS Isis (1819), HMS ''Isis'' 58-gun fourth rate 1819; designed by William Rule – hulked 1861, sold 1867 *HMS Java (1815), HMS ''Java'' 50-gun fourth rate 1815; designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, "Surveyors of the Navy" – hulked 1861, broken up 1862 *Southampton class frigate (1820), ''Southampton'' class 58-gun fourth rates 1820–03; modified from the design of the ''Java'' above **HMS Southampton (1820), HMS ''Southampton'' 1820 – presented to the Coastguard 1857, sold 1912 **HMS Portland (1822), HMS ''Portland'' 1822 – hulked as floating depot 1846, sold 1862 **HMS Lancaster (1823), HMS ''Lancaster'' 1823 – hulked as hospital ship 1847, sold 1864 **HMS Winchester (1822), HMS ''Winchester'' 1822 – hulked as training ship and renamed ''Conway'' 1862, renamed ''Mount Edgcumbe'', sold 1921 **HMS Chichester (1843), HMS ''Chichester'' 1843 – hulked and presented to the National Refuge Society, sold 1889 **HMS Worcester (1843), HMS ''Worcester'' 1843 – hulked as training ship 1862, sold for breaking 1885 **HMS ''Liverpool'' – cancelled 1829 **HMS ''Jamaica'' – cancelled 1829 *HMS President (1829), HMS ''President'' 52-gun (later 60-gun) fourth rate 1829; built to the lines of the USS President (captured 1814) – hulked as Royal Navy Reserve training ship 1861, renamed ''Old President'' and then sold 1903

32-pounder armed frigates

*razees 56-gun (converted from 74-gun ships of the line) **HMS Goliath (1781), HMS ''Goliath'' converted 1813 **HMS Saturn (1786), HMS ''Saturn'' converted 1813 **HMS Majestic (1785), HMS ''Majestic'' converted 1813 **HMS Elephant (1786), HMS ''Elephant'' converted 1817–18 **HMS Excellent (1787), HMS ''Excellent'' conversion began 1825 *HMS Castor (1832), HMS ''Castor'' 36-gun fifth rate 1832 *HMS Vernon (1832), HMS ''Vernon'' 50-gun fourth rate 1832 *Pique class frigate, ''Pique'' class 36-gun fifth rates 1834–41 **HMS Pique (1834), HMS ''Pique'' 1834 **HMS Cambrian (1841), HMS ''Cambrian'' 1841 **HMS Flora (1844), HMS ''Flora'' 1844 **HMS Active (1845), HMS ''Active'' 1845 **HMS Sybille (1847), HMS ''Sybille'' 1847 **HMS ''Constance'' – re-ordered to different design **HMS ''Chesapeake'' – re-ordered as steam/screw frigate *HMS Inconstant (1836), HMS ''Inconstant'' 36-gun fifth rate 1836 *HMS Thetis (1846), HMS ''Thetis'' 36-gun fifth rate 1846 *HMS Nankin, HMS ''Nankin'' 50-gun fourth rate 1850 The following classes were launched as sailing frigates but converted to steam when still active in c. 1860. *Raleigh class frigate, ''Raleigh'' class 50-gun fourth rates 1845 **HMS Raleigh (1845), HMS ''Raleigh'' 1845 (wrecked 1857) **HMS Severn (1856), HMS ''Severn'' (later converted to screw) *Constance class frigate, ''Constance'' class 50-gun fourth rates 1846 **HMS Constance (1846), HMS ''Constance'' 1846 (later converted to screw) **HMS Arethusa (1849), HMS ''Arethusa'' 1849 (later converted to screw) **HMS Octavia (1849), HMS ''Octavia'' 1849 (later converted to screw) **HMS Sutlej (1855), HMS ''Sutlej'' 1855 (later converted to screw) **HMS ''Liffey'' – re-ordered as steam/screw frigate *Leander class frigate (1848), ''Leander'' class 50-gun fourth rates 1848 **HMS Leander (1848), HMS ''Leander'' 1848 (later converted to screw) **HMS ''Shannon'' – re-ordered as steam/screw frigate *HMS Phaeton (1848), HMS ''Phaeton'' 50-gun fourth rate 1848 (later converted to screw) *Indefatigable class frigate, ''Indefatigable'' class 50-gun fourth rates 1848 **HMS Indefatigable (1848), HMS ''Indefatigable'' 1848 (retired 1857, later a training ship) **HMS Phoebe (1854), HMS ''Phoebe'' 1854 (later converted to screw) The following three classes were begun as sailing frigates, but all were completed as screw-driven steam frigates. *Emerald class frigate, ''Emerald'' class 50-gun fourth rates, ordered 1848. *San Fiorenzo class frigate, ''San Fiorenzo'' class 50-gun fourth rates, ordered 1848. * ''Narcissus'' class 50-gun fourth rates, ordered 1848.

19th century steam frigates

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 propeller 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. All these early steam vessels still carried a full rig of masts and sails, and 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.

Paddle-driven frigates

Although iron hulls were used for some warships in the 1840s, almost all the paddle frigates were wooden-hulled. The exception was the ill-fated ''Birkenhead''. * 1839–44 – second class, originally classed just as 'steam vessels', lengthened versions of sloop ''Gorgon'' ** 1839 ** 1843 ** 1842 ** 1844 * 1844 – second class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel', lengthened version of ''Cyclops'' with modified hull * 1845 – second class, originally classed just as 'steam vessels', lengthened version of ''Firebrand'' ** 1845 ** 1845 * 1843 – first class, originally built as a sailing frigate in 1829 * 1844 – first class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel', modified version of ''Cyclops'' * 1845 – first class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel' * 1845 – first class * (ex-''Vulcan'') iron-hulled frigate 1845 – second class, launched as a frigate but completed as a troopship in 1847 * 1846 – first class * 1846 – first class, improved version of ''Odin'' * 1850 – second class, lengthened version of ''Odin'' * 1849 – second class, enlarged version of sloop ''Sphinx'' * 1849 – second class, enlarged version of sloop ''Sphinx'' ** 1849 ** 1851 * 1850 – second class, enlarged version of sloop ''Sphinx'' ** 1850 ** HMS ''Resolute'' – cancelled 1850

Screw-driven frigates

In the mid-1840s, the Admiralty ordered four iron-hulled, screw-driven frigates from specialist shipbuilders; however, the Admiralty then rapidly lost faith in the ability of iron hulls to stand up to combat conditions, and all four (HMS Greenock (1849), ''Greenock'', HMS Vulcan (1849), ''Vulcan'', HMS Megaera (1849), ''Megaera'' and HMS Simoom (1849), ''Simoom'') were converted while under construction into troop transports, although the ''Greenock'' was promptly sold for commercial use. Following this unsuccessful experiment, though iron hulls were used for some warships in the 1840s, almost all the screw frigates below were wooden-hulled. The exceptions were the final three below – ''Inconstant'', ''Shah'' and ''Raleigh'' – which had iron hulls. *HMS Amphion (1846), HMS ''Amphion'' 1846 – the prototype screw frigate *HMS Arrogant (1848), HMS ''Arrogant'' 1848 – first class *Dauntless-class frigate, ''Dauntless'' class 1847 – second class **HMS Dauntless (1847), HMS ''Dauntless'' 1847 **HMS ''Vigilant'' – cancelled 1849 *Termagant-class frigate, ''Termagant'' class 1847 – second class **HMS Termagant (1847), HMS ''Termagant'' 1847 **HMS ''Euphrates'' – cancelled 1849 *Tribune-class frigate, ''Tribune'' class 1853 – second class **HMS Tribune (1853), HMS ''Tribune'' 1853 **HMS Curacoa (1854), HMS ''Curacoa'' 1854 *Imperieuse class frigate, ''Imperieuse'' class 1852 **HMS Imperieuse (1852), HMS ''Imperieuse'' 1852 **HMS Euryalus (1853), HMS ''Euryalus'' 1853 **HMS Aurora (1861), HMS ''Aurora'' 1861 **HMS Forte (1858), HMS ''Forte'' 1858 **HMS Chesapeake (1855), HMS ''Chesapeake'' 1855 *Liffey-class frigate, ''Liffey'' class 1856 **HMS Liffey (1856), HMS ''Liffey'' 1856 **HMS Shannon (1855), HMS ''Shannon'' 1855 **HMS Topaze (1858), HMS ''Topaze'' 1858 **HMS Bacchante (1859), HMS ''Bacchante'' 1859 **HMS Liverpool (1860), HMS ''Liverpool'' 1860 *Diadem-class frigate, ''Diadem'' class 1856–57 **HMS Diadem (1856), HMS ''Diadem'' 1856 **HMS Doris (1857), HMS ''Doris'' 1857 *Ariadne-class frigate, ''Ariadne'' class 1859 **HMS Ariadne (1859), HMS ''Ariadne'' 1859 **HMS Galatea (1859), HMS ''Galatea'' 1859 *Emerald-class frigate, ''Emerald'' class 1856 **HMS Emerald (1856), HMS ''Emerald'' 1856 **HMS Melpomene (1857), HMS ''Melpomene'' 1857 **HMS Immortalite (1859), HMS ''Immortalite'' 1859 *Mersey-class frigate, ''Mersey'' class 1858 **HMS Orlando (1858), HMS ''Orlando'' 1858 **HMS Mersey (1858), HMS ''Mersey'' 1858 *HMS Narcissus (1859), HMS ''Narcissus'' 1859 *Bristol-class frigate, ''Bristol'' class 1860 **HMS Newcastle (1860), HMS ''Newcastle'' 1860 **HMS Glasgow (1861), HMS ''Glasgow'' 1861 **HMS Bristol (1861), HMS ''Bristol'' 1861 **HMS Undaunted (1861), HMS ''Undaunted'' 1861 ** Ten further vessels to this design were cancelled in 1863–64 – ''Tweed'', ''Dryad'', ''Belvidera'', ''Pomone'', ''Raleigh'', ''Briton'', ''Barham'', ''Boadicea'', ''Bucephalus'' and ''Dextrous''. *Ister-class frigate, ''Ister'' class 1865 **HMS Endymion (1865), HMS ''Endymion'' 1865 ** Four further vessels to this design were cancelled in 1863–64 – ''Ister'', ''Blonde'', ''Astrea'' and ''Dartmouth''. *HMS Inconstant (1868), HMS ''Inconstant'' iron-hulled frigate 1868 *HMS Shah (1873), HMS ''Shah'' iron-hulled frigate 1873 *HMS Raleigh (1873), HMS ''Raleigh'' iron-hulled frigate 1873

Modern frigates – by class

The term 'frigate' was revived during

for a new type of escort vessel and has been employed continuously since that period. Note that, unlike the previous sections, no lists of the individual ships comprising each class are shown below the class names; the individual vessels are to be found in the articles on the separate classes. * River-class frigate, River class – 138 ships, 1941–1944 * Colony-class frigate, Colony class – 21 ships * Captain-class frigate, Captain class – 78 ships * Loch-class frigate, Loch class – 26 ships * Bay-class frigate, Bay class – 21 ships (redesigned ''Loch'' class for anti-aircraft escort) * Type 15 frigate, Type 15 – 23 ships (full rebuilds of

destroyer hulls) * Type 16 frigate, Type 16 – 10 ships (partial rebuilds of wartime destroyer hulls) * Leopard-class frigate, Type 41 ''Leopard'' class – 4 ships * Salisbury-class frigate, Type 61 ''Salisbury'' class – 4 ships * Whitby-class frigate, Type 12 ''Whitby'' class – 6 ships * Rothesay-class frigate, Type 12M ''Rothesay'' class – 9 ships * Leander-class frigate, Type 12I ''Leander'' class – 26 ships (subclasses: 8 Batch 1, 8 Batch 2, 10 Batch 3) * Blackwood-class frigate, Type 14 ''Blackwood'' class – 12 ships * Tribal-class frigate, Type 81 Tribal class – 7 ships * Type 21 frigate, Type 21 ''Amazon'' class – 8 ships * Type 22 frigate, Type 22 – 14 ships (subclasses: ''Broadsword'' 4, ''Boxer'' 6, ''Cornwall'' 4) * Type 23 frigate, Type 23 Duke class – 16 ships * Type 26 frigate, Type 26 City class – 8 ships planned, all under order as of November 2022 * Type 31 frigate – 5 ships planned, all under order as of November 2019 * Type 32 frigate – 5 ships planned

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) ;
''British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1793–1817'' (2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008) ;
''British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1714–1792'' (Seaforth Publishing, 2007) ;
''British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1603–1714'' (Seaforth Publishing, 2009) .

References

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