HMS Thisbe (1783)

HMS Thisbe was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Thisbe.

Thisbe at sea in a hurricane on 23 August 1798
History
RN EnsignGreat Britain
NameHMS Thisbe
Ordered23 February 1782
BuilderThomas King, Dover
Laid downSeptember 1782
Launched25 November 1783
Completed19 April 1784
CommissionedDecember 1787
Honours and
awards		Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
FateSold to be broken up, 9 August 1815
General characteristics
Class and typeEnterprise-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen59657⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 120 ft 6 in (36.73 m) (gundeck)
  • 99 ft 5+3⁄8 in (30.312 m) (keel)
Beam33 ft 7 in (10.24 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement200 officers and men
Armament
  • Gundeck: 24 × 9-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 18-pounder carronades

Service
Thisbe on fire on 4 January 1786, caused by a lightning strike.
Nicholas Matthew Condy. A second lightning bolt on the same day had set her Main sail, Top on fire

Thisbe was first commissioned in December 1787 under the command of Captain George Robertson. Because Thisbe served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[lower-alpha 1]

In 1804 Thisbe was in the Mediterranean. There she captured a privateer that she sent into Corfu. Thisbe also recaptured Wight, Ford, master, which had been sailing from Zant to London when the privater had captured her. '"Wight arrived at Portsmouth in September.[3]

Notes
  1. A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.[2]

Citations
  1. "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.
  3. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4490. 21 September 1805. hdl:2027/hvd.32044050633072. Retrieved 12 May 2021.

References
  • Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9.
  • David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
  • Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
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