| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Hermes-class post ships |
| Operators: | Royal Navy |
| Completed: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Sixth-rate post ship |
| Tons burthen: | 507 76/94 (as designed) |
| Length: | 119 ft (36 m) (gundeck) 99 ft 10.625 in (30.44508 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 11 in (9.42 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 135 |
| Armament: |
Hermes & Myrmidon
Ariadne & Valorous
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The Hermes-class sailing sixth rates were a series of four 20-gun post ships built to an 1810 design based on the ex-French prize Bonne Citoyenne, which the British captured in 1796, and which served in the Royal Navy to the end of the Napoleonic War.
The first pair were built at Milford Dockyard on the north side of Milford Haven. Hermes was launched in 1811 and Myrmidon in 1813. Milford Dockyard was closed following their construction, and the second pair were built at the new Pater (later Pembroke Dock) Dockyard on the south side of Milford Haven.
The second pair - Ariadne and Valorous - were launched on the same date in 1816. They were modified at Plymouth Dockyard before their first commission by the addition of quarterdecks and forecastle to what had originally been flush-deck vessels, and they were at that time re-classed as 26-gun sixth rates.
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