HMS Tees (1817)

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

Tees
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Tees
Builder	William Taylor, Bideford
Laid down	October 1813
Launched	17 May 1817
Commissioned	September 1818
Decommissioned	1827
Fate	Sank in 1872
General characteristics
Class & type	28-gun sixth-rate Conway-class post ship
Tons burthen	450 bm
Length	108 ft 6 in (33.1 m) (gundeck) 90 ft 1.25 in (27.5 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 8 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft (2.74 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	155
Armament	28 guns: UD: 18 × 32-pdrs carronades QD: 6 × 12-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 12-pounder carronades and 2 × 6-pdr chase guns

HMS Tees was a Conway-class 28-gun sixth rate post ship, launched in Bideford in 1817. She was used as the "Mariners' Church" permanently moored in St Georges Dock, Liverpool, from 1827 until she sank on 6 June 1872. ^[1]

References

1. "Local and General". Leeds Mercury. No. 10660. Leeds. 10 June 1872.

Bibliography

• 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.
• Liverpool: Churches, in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 43–52. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp43-52.

External links

• Media related to HMS Tees (ship, 1817) at Wikimedia Commons
• Logs of His Majesty's Ships Phaeton, Tees, and Conqueror, C0309, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries, http://scrc.gmu.edu/finding_aids/royalnavy.html