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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

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LIVELY 5th rate sailing frigates (1804-1815)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Lively     Woolwich DYd 11.1801 23.7.1804 27.8.1804 wrecked 10.8.1810
Resistance     Charles Ross, Rochester 3.1804 10.8.1805 19.10.1805 troopship 4.1842
Apollo     George Parsons, Bursledon 4.1804 27.6.1805 26.9.1805 troopship 4.1838
Hussar     Balthesar & Edward Adams, Bucklers Hard 3.1806 23.4.1807 27.6.1807 receiving ship 9.1833
Undaunted     Joseph Graham, Harwich 1806? --- --- builder failed 1806
Statira     Robert Guillaume, Northam 12.1805 7.7.1807 26.8.1807 wrecked 26.2.1815
Horatio     George Parsons, Bursledon 7.1805 23.4.1807 4.8.1807 screw guardship 1.1851, screw mortar ship 6.1855, sold 11.1865
Spartan     Charles Ross, Rochester 10.1805 16.8.1806 6.10.1806 BU 4.1822
Undaunted     Woolwich DYd 4.1806 17.10.1807 2.12.1807 target 1860
Menelaus     Plymouth DYd 11.1808 17.4.1810 21.6.1810 marine hospital 1834
Nisus     Plymouth DYd 12.1808 3.4.1810 15.6.1810 BU 9.1822
Macedonian     Woolwich DYd 5.1809 2.6.1810 6.7.1810 captured by USA 25.10.1812 (Macedonian)
Crescent     Woolwich DYd 9.1809 11.12.1810 7.2.1811 receiving ship 1.1840
Bacchante     Deptford DYd 7.1810 16.3.1811 25.1.1812 lazarette 2.1837
Nymphe (ex-Nereide)     George Parsons, Warsash 1.1811 13.4.1812 22.6.1812 hospital ship 8.1831
Sirius     Richard Blake & John Tyson, Bursledon 9.1811 11.9.1813 29.9.1815 target ship 7.1860
Laurel     John Parsons & John Rubie, Warsash 7.1812 31.5.1813 13.9.1813 bathing hulk 9.1864

 

Data variant sailing

Displacement normal, t

1072bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

46.9 gundeck

Breadth, m

12.0

Draught, m

4.11 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

14 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 4 x 1 - 107/14 9pdr SBML

later ships: 16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 2 x 1 - 107/14 9pdr SBML

Complement

284

Project history: 18pdr frigates, 38 guns (fifth rate), reclassed as 46-gun in 1817. Designed by Sir William Rule.

Modernizations: 1851, Horatio was converted to screw guardship with data as given in the table

1853, Horatio: - 20 x 1 - 177/16 42pdr; + 18 x 1 - 204/13 8'' 60cwt shell SBML

1855, Horatio: was armed with 2 x 330/5 13'' mortars, 2 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt SBML, 8 x 1 - 163/18 32pdr 56cwt

Data variant screw

Displacement normal, t

1707

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

47.0 gundeck

Breadth, m

12.2

Draught, m

5.84

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE, geared

Power, h. p.

553ihp

Max speed, kts

8.9

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 86cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 85cwt, 20 x 1 - 177/16 42pdr 66cwt SBML

Complement

320

Naval service: Lively wrecked off Malta 10.8.1810. Statira wrecked on a rock off Cuba 26.2.1815. Macedonian was captured by USN frigate United States in the Atlantic 25.10.1812 and served in the USN until 1834.

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