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VENUS 5th rate sailing frigates (1820-1830)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Venus     Deptford DYd 3.1817 10.8.1820 27.4.1821 TS 7.1848
Melampus     Pembroke DYd 8.1817 10.8.1820 23.9.1820 store and receiving ship 2.1855
Minerva     Portsmouth DYd 10.1817 13.6.1820 26.6.1820 floating workshop 1.1859
Latona     Chatham DYd 10.1818 16.6.1821 9.1821 mooring vessel 1868
Diana     Chatham DYd 2.1819 8.1.1822 22.2.1822 receiving ship 10.1868
Hebe     Woolwich DYd 5.1820 14.12.1826 5.1827 convict receiving ship 2.1839
Nereus     Pembroke DYd 1.1819 30.7.1821 12.9.1821 store ship 11.1843
Hamadryad     Pembroke DYd 9.1819 25.7.1823 23.8.1823 hospital ship 4.1866
Amazon     Deptford DYd 10.1817 15.8.1821 8.10.1821 corvette 1.1845, sold 9.1863
Aeolus     Deptford DYd 10.1818 17.6.1825 5.8.1825 store ship 11.1846
Thisbe     Pembroke DYd 8.1820 9.9.1824 5.10.1824 depot ship 1850
Cerberus     Plymouth DYd 11.1820 30.3.1827 11.4.1827 BU 1.1866
Circe     Plymouth DYd 11.1820 22.9.1827 23.10.1827 accommodation hulk 4.1866
Clyde     Woolwich DYd 1.1821 9.10.1828 2.1829 RNR drill ship 7.1869
Thames     Chatham DYd 6.1821 21.8.1823 3.10.1823 convict ship 1.1841
Fox     Portsmouth DYd 6.1821 17.8.1829 1829 screw frigate 3.1856, store ship 3.1862
Unicorn     Chatham DYd 2.1822 30.3.1824 14.5.1824 powder hulk 1857
Daedalus     Sheerness DYd 10.1822 22.5.1826 1826 corvette 11.1844, TS 6.1861
Proserpine     Plymouth DYd 11.1822 1.12.1830 1830 sold 1.1864
Mermaid     Chatham DYd 9.1823 30.7.1825 30.8.1825 powder ship 1858
Mercury     Chatham DYd 4.1824 16.11.1826 15.12.1826 coal depot 8.1862
Penelope     Pembroke DYd 11.1827 13.8.1829 1.1830 paddle frigate 7.1843, sold 7.1864
Thalia     Chatham DYd 2.1828 12.1.1830 10.2.1830 chapel ship 12.1855
Pegasus     Deptford DYd // Pembroke DYd 3.1828 --- --- cancelled 1.1831

 

Data variant sailing

Displacement normal, t

1077bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

46.3 gundeck

Breadth, m

12.4

Draught, m

3.89 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr 38cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 81/20 9pdr 26cwt SBML

Complement

300

Project history: 46-gun 5th rate 18pdr frigates. John Henslow design, modified to incorporate Seppings' circular stern and 'small-timber' system of construction. All rerated as 42-gun in 1839. Nemesis, Statira, Jason, Druid and Medusa were ordered but never started.

Modernizations: 1843, Penelope: was converted to paddle frigate with data as given in the table

Data variant paddle

Displacement normal, t

2766

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

65.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

12.4

Draught, m

8.13 hold depth

No of shafts

side paddle wheels

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl VSE direct action, 4 tubular boilers

Power, h. p.

650nhp

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal 500

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

8 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 203/8 68pdr 36cwt SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 177/17 42pdr 84cwt SBML, 10 x 1 - 175/8 42pdr 23cwt SBML carronades

Complement

200

1844, Daedalus: was cut down to 20-gun corvette: 6 x 1 - 204/12 8'' 52cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 87cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, complement 230.

1845, Amazon: was cut down to 26-gun corvette: 26 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, complement 240.

1856, Fox: was converted to screw frigate with data as given in the table

Data variant screw

Displacement normal, t

1780

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

48.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

12.3

Draught, m

3.89 hold depth

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 2-cyl HSE

Power, h. p.

741ihp

Max speed, kts

9.3

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

never commissioned as screw frigate

Complement

 

1856, Penelope: reduced to 16 guns

1862, Penelope: reduced to 14 guns

Naval service: No significant events.

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