Spanish frigate Ninfa (1795)
| History | |
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.svg){kind=small} Spain | |
| Name | Ninfa |
| Namesake | Nymph |
| Launched | 1794 or 1795 |
| Completed | 1795 |
| Captured | 26 April 1797 |
.svg){kind=small} Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Hamadryad |
| Namesake | Hamadryad |
| Acquired | 26 April 1797 |
| Commissioned | June 1797 |
| Fate | Wrecked 25 December 1797 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | 36-gun frigate |
| Tons burthen | 890 (bm) |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Complement | 264 |
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Ninfa was a 36-gun Spanish
Minorca
, between 1794 and 1795. She was captured by the British in an action on 26 April 1797 and taken into service as HMS Hamadryad. She sank in a storm on 25 December the same year.
Construction
Ninfa was built at
Minorca, between 1794 and 1795. Her measurements were not recorded but she was known to be 890 tons burthen. As built, her armament comprised twenty-six 12-pounders on the main gundeck, eight 6-pounders and six 32-pound carronades on the quarterdeck, and two 6-pound guns with two 32-pound carronades on the forecastle.[1]
Capture
In April 1797, Ninfa and a similar frigate, Santa Elena, were bound for
struck. Before she could be taken possession of however, Santa Elena cut her cable and drifted onto the shore where she was so badly damaged that when the British tried to refloat her, she sank.[2]
British service
After her capture, Ninfa was taken into Gibraltar where she was commissioned under Thomas Elphinstone as HMS Hamadryad. On 30 June 1797, she captured a Spanish privateer off the Rock, and on 3 July she captured another privateer in the Straits, Actaeon. Her British career was cut short however when she sank whilst trying to shelter from a storm in Algiers Bay, on 25 December 1797.[1]
Citations
References
- ISBN 0-85177-906-9.
- Winfield, Rif (2005) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
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