Laurel-class post ship

Class overview
Name: Laurel-class post ships
Operators:  Royal Navy
Completed: 6
General characteristics
Type: Sixth-rate post ship
Tons burthen: 526 3994 (bm; as designed)
Length:
  • 118 ft (36 m) (gundeck)
  • 98 ft 7 14 in (30.055 m) (keel)
Beam: 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 155 (later raised to 175).
Armament:
  • As ordered :
  • UD: 22 × 9-pounder guns (later replaced by 22 x 32-pounder carronades
  • QD: 6 × 24-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 24-pounder carronades

The Laurel-class sailing sixth rates were a series of six post ships built to an 1805 design by Sir John Henslow. The first three were launched in 1806, two more in 1807, and the last in 1812. The vessels of the class served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War.

Ships in class

References

  1. The London Gazette: no. 16362. p. 579. 17 April 1810.
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