Active-class frigate

	HMS Astraea captures the Gloire, a print by Thomas Whitcombe
Class overview
Builders:	John Fisher, Liverpool; J. Pollard, Sheerness Dockyard; George Parsons, Bursledon, Hampshire; Robert Fabian, East Cowes;
Operators:	United Kingdom
Preceded by:	Amazon-class frigate
Succeeded by:	Hermione-class frigate
Built:	1780-1784
In commission:	1780-1830
Planned:	8
Completed:	8
Lost:	3
Scrapped:	5
General characteristics
Type:	32-gun fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:	68929⁄94 (bm)
Length:	126 ft 6 1⁄2 in (38.6 m) (overall); 104 ft 7 1⁄2 in (31.9 m) (keel);
Beam:	35 ft 2 1⁄4 in (10.7 m)
Draught:	8 ft (2.4 m)
Depth of hold:	12 ft 1 1⁄2 in (3.7 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	220
Armament:	Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns; QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades; Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades;

The Active-class frigate was a 32-gun 5th-rate frigate class of 8 ships designed by Edward Hunt to replace the Amazon design, which they resembled with a distinct midsection. Due to poor performance, orders continued on the Amazon-class. The Active-class was designed with a 126ft gundeck with a 103ft 9 5/8in keel, 35ft 4in at the beam, and a draught of 12ft 2in, displacing 689 25/94 bm. The class was designed with an armament of 26/x12 pdrs on the gundeck, 4 x 6pdr on the quarterdeck with 4x24pdr carronade, 2 x 6pdr and 2 x24pdr carronades on the forecastle.

Ships in class

HMS Cerberus (1779) - wrecked attempting to exit Castle Harbour, Bermuda, via Castle Roads
HMS Active (1780) – wrecked on Anticosti Island in the St Lawrence estuary 13 July 1796, abandoned 30 July 1796.
HMS Daedalus (1780) - broken up July 1811.
HMS Fox (1780) – broken up 1816
HMS Astraea (1781) – wrecked on Anegada Island in the Virgin Islands 23 March 1808.
HMS Ceres (1781) – broken up 1830.
HMS Quebec (1781) – broken up 1830.
HMS Mermaid (1784) - broken up November 1815.

References

British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (2014) ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4

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