NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Venus			Deptford DYd	3.1817	10.8.1820	27.4.1821	TS 7.1848
Melampus			Pembroke DYd	8.1817	10.8.1820	23.9.1820	store and receiving ship 2.1855
Minerva			Portsmouth DYd	10.1817	13.6.1820	26.6.1820	floating workshop 1.1859
Latona			Chatham DYd	10.1818	16.6.1821	9.1821	mooring vessel 1868
Diana			Chatham DYd	2.1819	8.1.1822	22.2.1822	receiving ship 10.1868
Hebe			Woolwich DYd	5.1820	14.12.1826	5.1827	convict receiving ship 2.1839
Nereus			Pembroke DYd	1.1819	30.7.1821	12.9.1821	store ship 11.1843
Hamadryad			Pembroke DYd	9.1819	25.7.1823	23.8.1823	hospital ship 4.1866
Amazon			Deptford DYd	10.1817	15.8.1821	8.10.1821	corvette 1.1845, sold 9.1863
Aeolus			Deptford DYd	10.1818	17.6.1825	5.8.1825	store ship 11.1846
Thisbe			Pembroke DYd	8.1820	9.9.1824	5.10.1824	depot ship 1850
Cerberus			Plymouth DYd	11.1820	30.3.1827	11.4.1827	BU 1.1866
Circe			Plymouth DYd	11.1820	22.9.1827	23.10.1827	accommodation hulk 4.1866
Clyde			Woolwich DYd	1.1821	9.10.1828	2.1829	RNR drill ship 7.1869
Thames			Chatham DYd	6.1821	21.8.1823	3.10.1823	convict ship 1.1841
Fox			Portsmouth DYd	6.1821	17.8.1829	1829	screw frigate 3.1856, store ship 3.1862
Unicorn			Chatham DYd	2.1822	30.3.1824	14.5.1824	powder hulk 1857
Daedalus			Sheerness DYd	10.1822	22.5.1826	1826	corvette 11.1844, TS 6.1861
Proserpine			Plymouth DYd	11.1822	1.12.1830	1830	sold 1.1864
Mermaid			Chatham DYd	9.1823	30.7.1825	30.8.1825	powder ship 1858
Mercury			Chatham DYd	4.1824	16.11.1826	15.12.1826	coal depot 8.1862
Penelope			Pembroke DYd	11.1827	13.8.1829	1.1830	paddle frigate 7.1843, sold 7.1864
Thalia			Chatham DYd	2.1828	12.1.1830	10.2.1830	chapel ship 12.1855
Pegasus			Deptford DYd // Pembroke DYd	3.1828	---	---	cancelled 1.1831

Technical data

Data variant	sailing	paddle	screw
Displacement normal, t	1077bm	2766	1780
Displacement full, t
Length, m	46.3 gundeck	65.6 gundeck	48.6 gundeck
Breadth, m	12.4	12.4	12.3
Draught, m	3.89 hold depth	8.13 hold depth	3.89 hold depth
No of shafts		side paddle wheels	1
Machinery	sails	sails + 1 2-cyl VSE direct action, 4 tubular boilers	sails + 1 2-cyl HSE
Power, h. p.		650nhp	741ihp
Max speed, kts		11	9.3
Fuel, t		coal 500	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	16 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr 38cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 81/20 9pdr 26cwt SBML	8 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 203/8 68pdr 36cwt SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 177/17 42pdr 84cwt SBML, 10 x 1 - 175/8 42pdr 23cwt SBML carronades	never commissioned as screw frigate
Complement	300	200

Project history

46-gun 5th rate 18pdr frigates. John Henslow design, modified to incorporate Seppings' circular stern and 'small-timber' system of construction. All rerated as 42-gun in 1839. Nemesis, Statira, Jason, Druid and Medusa were ordered but never started.

Modernizations

1843, Penelope: was converted to paddle frigate with data as given in the table

1844, Daedalus: was cut down to 20-gun corvette: 6 x 1 - 204/12 8'' 52cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 87cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, complement 230.

1845, Amazon: was cut down to 26-gun corvette: 26 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, complement 240.

1856, Fox: was converted to screw frigate with data as given in the table

1856, Penelope: reduced to 16 guns

1862, Penelope: reduced to 14 guns

Naval service

No significant events.