Pallas-class frigate

The Pallas-class frigates were a series of three frigates built to a 1791 design by John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

For the later class of frigates, see Pallas-class frigate (1808).

Pallas-class frigate
Class overview
NamePallas class
Operators Royal Navy
Preceded byPerseverance class
Succeeded byArtois class
Completed3
Lost2
General characteristics
TypeFrigate
Tons burthen776 77⁄94 bm (as designed)
Length
  • 135 ft 0 in (41.1 m) (gundeck)
  • 112 ft 8+1⁄4 in (34.3 m) (keel)
Beam36 ft 0 in (11.0 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement257 (altered in 1796 to 254)
Armament
  • Upper deck: 26 x 18-pounder guns
  • Qd: 4 x 6-pounder guns + 4 x 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc:2 x 6-pounder bow chasers + 2 x 32-pounder carronades

The trio were all dockyard-built in order to use spare shipbuilding capacity. The orders were originally assigned in December 1790 to the Royal Dockyards at Plymouth and Portsmouth, but in February 1791 the orders were transferred to Chatham and Woolwich Dockyards respectively. They were the first and only 32-gun Royal Navy frigates designed to be armed with the eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate.

Ships in class

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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