Artois-class frigate
The Artois class were a series of nine frigates built to a 1793 design by Sir John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Artois class |
| Operators: | |
| Preceded by: | Pallas class |
| Succeeded by: | Alcmene class |
| Completed: | 9 |
| Lost: | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 983 70⁄94 bm (as designed) |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | 39 ft 0 in (11.9 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 270 (altered later to 315) |
| Armament: |
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Seven of these ships were built by contract with commercial builders, while the remaining pair (Tamar and Clyde) were dockyard-built - the latter built using "fir" (pitch pine) instead of the normal oak.
They were armed with a main battery of 28 eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate. Besides this battery, they also carried two 9-pounders together with twelve 32-pounder carronades on the quarter deck, and another two 9-pounders together with two 32-pounder carronades on the forecastle.
Ships in class
- HMS Artois
- Builder: John & William Wells, Rotherhithe
- Ordered: 28 March 1793
- Laid down: March 1793
- Launched: 3 January 1794
- Completed: 3 March 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
- Fate: Wrecked on the Ballieu rocks off Brittany on 31 July 1797
- HMS Diana
- Builder: Randall & Co, Rotherhithe
- Ordered: 28 March 1793
- Laid down: March 1793
- Launched: 3 March 1794
- Completed: 6 June 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
- Fate: Sold to new Dutch Navy on 7 March 1815;
burnt in fire at Willemsoord, Den Helder on 16 January 1839.
- HMS Apollo
- Builder: Perry & Hankey, Blackwall
- Ordered: 28 March 1793
- Laid down: March 1793
- Launched: 18 March 1794
- Completed: 23 September 1794 at Woolwich Dockyard
- Fate: Wrecked on the Haak sands off the Dutch coast on 7 January 1799
- HMS Diamond
- Builder: William Barnard, Deptford
- Ordered: 28 March 1793
- Laid down: April 1793
- Launched: 17 March 1794
- Completed: 6 June 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
- Fate: Broken up at Sheerness Dockyard in June 1812
- HMS Jason
- Builder: John Dudman, Deptford
- Ordered: 1 April 1793
- Laid down: April 1793
- Launched: 3 April 1794
- Completed: 25 July 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
- Fate: Wrecked on rocks off Brittany on 13 October 1798
- HMS Seahorse
- Builder: Marmaduke Stalkart, Rotherhithe
- Ordered: 14 February 1793
- Laid down: March 1793
- Launched: 11 June 1794
- Completed: 16 September 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
- Fate: Broken up at Plymouth Dockyard in July 1819
- HMS Tamar
- Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard
- Ordered: 4 February 1795
- Laid down: June 1795
- Launched: 26 March 1796
- Completed: 21 June 1796
- Fate: Broken up in January 1810 at Chatham Dockyard.
- HMS Clyde
- Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard
- Ordered: 4 February 1795
- Laid down: June 1795
- Launched: 26 March 1796
- Completed: 21 June 1796
- Fate: Sold to be broken up August 1814.
- HMS Ethalion
- Builder: Joseph Graham, Harwich
- Ordered: 30 April 1795
- Laid down: October 1795
- Launched: 14 March 1797
- Completed: 11 July 1797 at Chatham Dockyard
- Fate: Wrecked on the Penmarcks on 25 December 1799
References
- Robert Gardiner, The Heavy Frigate, Conway Maritime Press, London 1994.
- Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
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