HMS Isis (1819)

HMS Isis launched in 1819 was ordered in 1811 as a 50-gun two-decker of the fourth rate Salisbury class, but was redesigned while building, being lengthened on the stocks by 11 feet (3.4 m), and cut down by one deck to produce a spar-deck frigate, that is, to carry extra guns on the spar deck which linked the forecastle to the quarterdeck.

Isis
History
United Kingdom
Ordered: 10 September 1811 (as a two-decker)
Builder: Woolwich Dockyard.
Laid down: February 1816
Launched: 5 October 1819
Completed: 3 September 1823 at Chatham Dockyard
Fate: Coal depot at Sierra Leone in March 1861, then sold to purportedly be broken up there on 12 March 1867 at liquidation.
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 1,2928894 (as redesigned)
Length: 164 ft 0 in (49.99 m)
Beam: 41 ft 11 in (12.78 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 350
Armament:
  • UD: Twenty-eight 24-pounder guns;
  • QD & Fc twenty-eight 42-pounder carronades and two 24-pounder guns.

It was then intended for her to have carried 58 guns as shown in the table, but this weapon 'fit' was amended on 3 June 1823 to complete her as a 50-gun frigate with an unarmed spar deck, and she was later reduced in 1830 to a 44-gun frigate carrying twenty-six 32-pounder guns on the upper deck, twelve more 32-pounder guns on the quarterdeck, and two 32-pounder guns on the forecastle together with two 8-inch shell guns.

References

  • David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
  • David Lyon and Rif Winfield, The Sail and Steam Navy List, Chatham Publishing, London 2004. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
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