HMS Resource (1778)

Career (Great Britain)
Name: HMS Resource
Ordered: 30 September 1777
Builder: John Randall & Co, Rotherhithe
Laid down: November 1777
Launched: 10 August 1778
Completed: 2 October 1778 (at Deptford Dockyard)
Commissioned: July 1778
Renamed: Enterprise 17 April 1806
Fate: Sold to break up 28 August 1816
General characteristics
Class and type: 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen: 603 34⁄94 (bm)
Length: 120 ft 8 in (36.78 m) (overall)
99 ft 7 in (30.35 m) (keel)
Beam: 33 ft 9 in (10.3 m)
Depth of hold: 11 ft 0.5 in (3.366 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 200 officers and men
Armament:

28 guns comprising

HMS Resource was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Resource was first commissioned in July 1778 under the command of Captain Patrick Fotheringham.

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