Cyrus-class ship-sloop

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Class overview
NameCyrus class
OperatorsNaval ensign of the United Kingdom.svg  Royal Navy
Completed16
General characteristics
Type
Tons burthen454 80⁄94 (as designed)
Length
  • 115 ft 6 in (35.20 m) (gundeck)
  • 97 ft 2 in (29.62 m) (keel)
Beam29 ft 8 in (9.04 m)
Depth of hold8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
PropulsionSail
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Complement135
Armament
  • UD: 20 × 32-pounder carronades
  • and 2 × 6-pounder chase guns

The Cyrus-class sixth rates of the Royal Navy were a series of sixteen-flush decked sloops of war built to an 1812 design by Sir William Rule, the Surveyor of the Navy. The first nine ships of the class were launched in 1813 and the remaining seven in 1814. The vessels of the class served at the end of the Napoleonic War. They were built on the lines of HMS Hermes, which was based in turn on the French ship Bonne Citoyenne.

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The Cyrus class was intended to be the counter to the new Frolic-class ship-rigged sloops that were under construction for the United States Navy. No encounter took place between any vessel of the Frolic class and one of the Cyrus class, but HMS Levant was captured by the American frigate USS Constitution. [1]

With the re-organisation of the rating system which took place in the Royal Navy effective from 1 January 1817, the Cyrus-class flush-decked ships were re-classified as 20-gun sloops.

Ships in class

NameOrderedBuilderLaid downLaunchedCompletedFate
Medina 18 November 1812Edward Adams, Bucklers Hard January 181313 August 181320 December 1813 at Portsmouth Dockyard Sold to be broken up at Rotherhithe in 1832.
Cyrus 18 November 1812William Courtney, Chester January 181326 August 181311 March 1814 at Plymouth Dockyard Sold to be broken up at Plymouth in 1823
Levant 18 November 1812William Courtney, Chester January 18138 December 181322 April 1814 at Plymouth Dockyard Broken up at Chatham in 1820
Esk 18 November 1812 Jabez Bayley, Ipswich March 181311 October 181314 June 1814 at Sheerness Sold at Chatham in 1829
Carron 18 November 1812Edward Adams, Bucklers Hard March 18139 November 181322 March 1814 at Portsmouth Dockyard Wrecked near Puri, India in 1820
Tay 18 November 1812Balthazar Adams, Bucklers Hard April 181326 November 181328 November 1814 at Portsmouth Dockyard (for sea)Wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico in 1816
Slaney 18 November 1812Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury April 18139 December 181323 January 1815 at Chatham Dockyard (for sea) Receiving ship in Bermuda in 1832, BU in 1838
Erne 18 November 1812Robert Newman, Dartmouth March 181318 December 181330 March 1814 at Portsmouth Dockyard Wrecked on Sal Island in 1819
Leven 18 November 1812Jabez Bayley, Ipswich March 181323 December 181322 January 1815 at Sheerness (for sea)Broken up at Deptford Dockyard in 1848
Falmouth 18 November 1812Richard Chapman, Bideford April 18138 January 1814July 1815 at Plymouth Dockyard (for sea)Sold for mercantile use (renamed Protector) in 1825
Cyrene 18 November 1812Richard Chapman, Bideford April 18134 June 181412 October 1818 at Plymouth Dockyard (for sea)Sold at Bombay in 1828
Bann 18 November 1812John King, Upnor May 18138 January 181423 January 1815 at Chatham Dockyard (for sea)Sold at Chatham in 1829
Spey 18 November 1812James Warwick, Eling, Southampton May 181324 January 18147 February 1815 at Portsmouth Dockyard (for sea)Sold at Chatham in 1822
Lee 18 November 1812Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury March 181324 January 1814January 1815 at Plymouth Dockyard (for sea)Broken up at Plymouth Dockyard in 1822
Hind 18 November 1812Robert Davy, Topsham, Exeter May 18138 March 181413 July 1819 Plymouth Dockyard (for sea)Sold at Bombay in 1829
Larne 18 November 1812William Bottomley, King's Lynn July 18138 March 181412 January 1815 Sheerness (for sea)Sold for breaking up in 1828

Notes

  1. ↑ Gardiner, p. 87

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