A model of HMS Cyane showing her after her capture by USS Constitution |
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Class overview | |
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Name: | Banterer-class post ships |
Operators: | Royal Navy |
Completed: | 6 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Sixth-rate post ship |
Tons burthen: | 537 2/94 (as designed) |
Length: | 118 ft (36 m) (gundeck) 98 ft 7.125 in (30.05138 m) (keel) |
Beam: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
Complement: | 155 (later raised to 175). |
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The Banterer-class sailing sixth rates were a series of six post ships built to an 1805 design by Sir William Rule, which served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. The first four were launched in 1806 and the remaining two in 1807.
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