Artois-class frigate

Class overview
Name: Artois class
Operators:
Preceded by: Pallas class
Succeeded by: Alcmene class
Completed: 9
Lost: 5
General characteristics
Type: Frigate
Tons burthen: 983 70⁄94 bm (as designed)
Length:
  • 146 ft 0 in (44.5 m) (gundeck)
  • 121 ft 7.125 in (37.1 m) (keel)
Beam: 39 ft 0 in (11.9 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 270 (altered later to 315)
Armament:
  • Upper Deck:
    • 28 x 18-pounder guns
  • Quarter Deck:
    • 2 x 9-pounder guns
    • 12 x 32-pounder carronades
  • Forecastle:
    • 2 x 9-pounder guns
    • 2 x 32-pounder carronades

The Artois class were a series of nine frigates built to a 1793 design by Sir John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Seven of these ships were built by contract with commercial builders, while the remaining pair (Tamar and Clyde) were dockyard-built - the latter built using "fir" (pitch pine) instead of the normal oak.

They were armed with a main battery of 28 eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate. Besides this battery, they also carried two 9-pounders together with twelve 32-pounder carronades on the quarter deck, and another two 9-pounders together with two 32-pounder carronades on the forecastle.

Ships in class

References

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