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.
 Design of the class | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| 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
| Ship name | Builder | Ordered | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Artois | John & William Wells, Rotherhithe | 28 March 1793 | March 1793 | 3 January 1794 | December 1793 | Wrecked on the Ballieu rocks off Brittany on 31 July 1797 | [1] |
| HMS Diana | Randall & Co, Rotherhithe | 3 March 1794 | April 1794 | Sold to new Dutch Navy on 7 March 1815; burnt in fire at Willemsoord, Den Helder on 16 January 1839 | [2] | ||
| HMS Apollo | Perry & Hankey, Blackwall | 18 March 1794 | August 1794 | Wrecked on the Haak sands off the Dutch coast on 7 January 1799 | [2] | ||
| HMS Diamond | William Barnard, Deptford | April 1793 | 17 March 1794 | April 1794 | Broken up at Sheerness Dockyard in June 1812 | [3] | |
| HMS Seahorse | Marmaduke Stalkart, Rotherhithe | 14 February 1793 | March 1793 | 11 June 1794 | July 1794 | Broken up at Plymouth Dockyard in July 1819 | [4] |
| HMS Jason | John Dudman, Deptford | 1 April 1793 | April 1793 | 3 April 1794 | May 1794 | Wrecked on rocks off Brittany on 13 October 1798 | [4] |
| HMS Tamar | Chatham Royal Dockyard | 4 February 1795 | June 1795 | 26 March 1796 | April 1796 | Broken up in January 1810 at Chatham Dockyard. | [5] |
| HMS Clyde | Sold to be broken up August 1814. | [5] | |||||
| HMS Ethalion | Joseph Graham, Harwich | 30 April 1795 | October 1795 | 14 March 1797 | April 1797 | Wrecked on the Penmarcks on 25 December 1799 | [6] |
Citations
- Winfield, British Warships, p. 345.
- Winfield, British Warships, p. 346.
- Winfield, British Warships, pp. 346–7.
- Winfield, British Warships, p. 348.
- Winfield, British Warships, p. 349.
- Winfield, British Warships, pp. 349–50.
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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