Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Leda | Chatham DYd | 1.5.1799 | 18.11.1800 | 19.12.1800 | wrecked 31.1.1808 | ||
Pomone | Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury | 12.1803 | 17.1.1805 | 29.3.1805 | wrecked 14.10.1811 | ||
Shannon | Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury | 8.1804 | 5.5.1806 | 3.8.1806 | receiving ship 11.1831 | ||
Leonidas | John Pelham, Frindsbury | 11.1805 | 4.9.1807 | 10.12.1807 | powder hulk 1872 | ||
Briton | Chatham DYd | 2.1810 | 11.4.1812 | 22.6.1812 | convict ship 1841 | ||
Tenedos | Chatham DYd | 5.1810 | 11.4.1812 | 16.6.1812 | convict ship 4.1843 | ||
Lacedemonian | Portsmouth DYd | 5.1810 | 21.12.1812 | 23.2.1813 | BU 11.1822 | ||
Lively (ex-Scamander) | Chatham DYd | 7.1810 | 14.7.1813 | 15.7.1813 | receiving ship 4.1831 | ||
Surprise | Milford DYd | 1.1810 | 25.7.1812 | 1.12.1812 | sold 10.1837 | ||
Diamond | Chatham DYd | 8.1813 | 16.1.1816 | 1816 | fire 18.2.1827 | ||
Amphitrite | Bombay DYd | 8.1814 | 14.4.1816 | 1816 | corvette 4.1846, BU 1.1875 | ||
Trincomalee | Bombay DYd | 2.1816 | 12.10.1817 | 30.5.1818 | corvette 9.1847, TS 1.1861, sold 5.1897 | ||
Thetis | Pembroke DYd | 12.1814 | 1.2.1817 | 20.9.1817 | wrecked 5.12.1830 | ||
Arethusa | Pembroke DYd | 2.1815 | 29.7.1817 | 27.9.1817 | lazarette 6.1836 | ||
Blanche | Chatham DYd | 2.1816 | 26.5.1819 | 9.1819 | receiving ship 11.1833 | ||
Fisgard | Pembroke DYd | 2.1817 | 8.7.1819 | 27.8.1819 | harbour service 10.1847 |
Displacement normal, t |
1063bm |
Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
45.8 gundeck |
Breadth, m |
12.2 |
Draught, m |
3.89 hold depth |
No of shafts |
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Machinery |
sails |
Power, h. p. |
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Max speed, kts |
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Fuel, t |
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Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
8 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 10 x 1 - 107/14 9pdr SBML |
Complement |
284 |
Project history: 18pdr frigates, 38 guns (fifth rate), reclassed as 46-gun in 1817. Designed to the lines of the Hebe, a French prize taken in 1782.
Modernizations: 1846, Amphitrite, 1847, Trincomalee: were cut down to 26-gun corvettes and armed with: 10 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 87cwt SBML, 8 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt SBML, 4 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr carronades, complement 240
Naval service: Leda wrecked at the entrance to Milford Haven 31.1.1808. Pomone wrecked on the Needles 14.10.1811. Diamond accidentally burnt at Portsmouth 18.2.1827. Thetis wrecked 5.12.1830 off Cape Frio, Brazil.
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