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Name | Thisbe |
Namesake | Thisbe |
Ordered | 23 July 1817 |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
Laid down | November 1820 |
Launched | 9 September 1824 |
Completed | 12 September 1821 |
Commissioned | Never |
Reclassified | As depot ship, 1850 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 11 August 1892 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Modified Leda-class frigate |
Tons burthen | 1082 67/94 bm |
Length | |
Beam | 40 ft 4 in (12.3 m) |
Draught | 15 ft 4 in (4.7 m) |
Depth | 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 315 |
Armament |
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HMS Thisbe was a 46-gun modified Leda-class fifth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s. The ship was never commissioned and spent her entire career in reserve or on third-line duties. She was converted into a depot ship in 1850 and then into a floating church in 1863. Thisbe was replaced by a shore-based establishment, All Souls Chapel, in 1891 and sold for scrap the following year.
Thisbe had a length at the gundeck of 151 feet 9 inches (46.3 m) and 127 feet (38.7 m) at the keel. She had a beam of 40 feet 4 inches (12.3 m), a draught of 15 feet 4 inches (4.7 m) and a depth of hold of 12 feet 9 inches (3.9 m). The ship's tonnage was 1082 67⁄94 tons burthen. [1] The modified Leda-class frigates were armed with twenty-eight 18-pounder cannon on her gundeck, fourteen 32-pounder carronades on her quarterdeck and a pair of 9-pounder cannon and two more 32-pounder carronades in forecastle. The ship had a crew of 315 officers and ratings. [2]
Thisbe, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy, [3] was ordered on 23 July 1817, laid down in August 1820 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 9 September 1824. [4] She was completed for ordinary at Plymouth Dockyard on 5 October 1824 and the ship was roofed over from the mainmast forward. Thisbe was converted for service as a depot ship from 1850–63 and was loaned to the Missions to Seamen on 13 August of that year as a floating church; [1] Lord Bute paid for the necessary modifications. The ship spent almost the next 30 years berthed at the Bute West Dock in Cardiff. [5] Thisbe was taken out of service in 1891 and sold to W. H. Caple for £1,005 on 11 August 1892. [1] All Souls Chapel was built nearby in 1892 as a replacement.
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