HMS Fisgard (1819)

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HMS Fisgard (middle), HMS Arrow (right) at Greenwich
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Fisgard
Ordered24 August 1815
BuilderPembroke Dockyard
Laid downFebruary 1817
Launched8 July 1819
Commissioned27 August 1819
FateBroken up by 8 October 1879
General characteristics
Class and type46-gun Leda-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen1,062 bm
Length150 ft 1.5 in (45.758 m)
Beam39 ft 11 in (12.17 m)
Draught12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement315
Armament

HMS Fisgard was a 46-gun

fifth rate Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy
. She spent sixty years in service on a variety of duties.

Construction and commissioning

Fisgard was a continuation of the successful Leda class that had been designed by Sir John Henslow and served during the Napoleonic Wars. They had their armament increased from the earlier ships of that class, and mounted 46 guns instead of 38. Fisgard was ordered on 24 August 1815 from Pembroke Dockyard and was laid down in February 1817. She was launched on 8 July 1819 and commissioned on 27 August 1819, having cost a total of £23,493.[1]

Career

Having been accepted into service, she was laid up in ordinary for 24 years, only being activated in 1843.

Pacific.[3] On 18 September 1847, during a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Portsmouth, Hampshire, she ran aground off East Cowes, Isle of Wight; she was refloated.[4]

Fisgard returned to Woolwich,[3] where she was designated as the harbour flagship and was fitted for a commodore. Commodore James John Gordon Bremer hoisted his flag aboard her on 24 October 1847, the first of a number of such officers. On 20 December 1858 Fisgard became the flagship of Commodore James Robert Drummond, the commander-in-chief at Woolwich. In 1861, she was the guard-ship of the Port of London.[5] Her last commodore was William Edmonstone, who took command on 6 April 1868.[3] Between 1848 and 1872 she was used to train engineers for the navy, and was the nominated depot ship for personnel stationed ashore.[6] Additionally, between 1853 and 1873 she served as the Headquarters ship of the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers.[7]

Decommissioning

Fisgard was eventually paid off for breaking up, a process completed at

shore establishment named HMS Fisgard
, which would go on to train engineers and artificers during the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth.

Legacy

Fisgard Street (Victoria) in British Columbia, Canada
are named after the vessel.

Citations

  1. ^ a b Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, Sail and Steam Navy List, p. 26
  2. ^ Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, p. 127.
  3. ^ a b c "HMS Fisgard's career at the William Loney RN website". Retrieved 15 June 2010.
  4. ^ "Naval Intelligence". The Times. No. 19659. London. 11 September 1847. col F, p. 3.
  5. ^ "The illustrated London news". 1842.
  6. ^ Warlow, Shore Establishments, p. 58.
  7. S2CID 239769931
    .

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