Pallas-class frigate
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Pallas-class frigate
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Class overview | |
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Name | Pallas class |
Operators | Royal Navy |
Preceded by | Perseverance class |
Succeeded by | Artois class |
Completed | 3 |
Lost | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Frigate |
Tons burthen | 776 77⁄94 bm (as designed) |
Length |
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Beam | 36 ft 0 in (11.0 m) |
Depth of hold | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 257 (altered in 1796 to 254) |
Armament |
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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
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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
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
- HMS Stag
- Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard
- Ordered: 9 December 1790
- Laid down: March 1792
- Launched: 12 July 1794
- Completed: 5 October 1794
- Fate: Wrecked in a storm in Vigo Bay 6 September 1800, and burnt the next day.
- HMS Unicorn
- Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard
- Ordered: 9 December 1790
- Laid down: March 1792
- Launched: 12 July 1794
- Completed: 5 October 1794
- Fate: Broken up March 1815 at Deptford Dockyard.
- HMS Pallas
- Builder: Woolwich Royal Dockyard
- Ordered: 9 December 1790
- Laid down: May 1792
- Launched: 19 December 1793
- Completed: 5 March 1794.
- Fate: Wrecked in a storm in Cawsand Bay, Cornwall on 4 April 1798
References
Robert Gardiner, The Heavy Frigate, Conway Maritime Press, London 1994.
Rif Winfield,
ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4
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External links
- Media related to HMS Pallas (ship, 1793) at Wikimedia Commons