HMS Coventry (1757)

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Name: HMS Coventry
Operator: Royal Navy
Ordered: 1756
Builder: Adams yard, Beaulieu.
Laid down: May 1756
Launched: 30 May 1757
Captured: 1783
General characteristics
Class and type: Coventry class frigate
Tons burthen: 587 bm
Length: 118 ft 4 in (36.1 m)
Beam: 33 ft 8 in (10.3 m)
Depth of hold: 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 200
Armament: UD: Twenty-four 9-pounder guns;
QD: four 3-pounder guns
FC: Nil.
Also 12 Swivels

HMS Coventry was a 28-gun, Frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was designed by Sir Thomas Slade "to the draught of the Tartar with such alterations withinboard as may be judged necessary", making her a further development of the Lyme. A further eight ships were built to the draught of the Coventry between 1756 and 1758.

The ship was captured by the French in 1783.

[edit] References

  • David Lyon, "The Sailing Navy List", Brasseys Publications, London 1993.