Lively class frigate

Class overview
Operators:  Royal Navy
Completed: 16
General characteristics
Type: Fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen: 1,071 51/94 (as designed)
Length: 154 ft (47 m)
Beam: 39 ft 5 in (12.01 m)
Draught: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 284 (later raised to 300, then in 1813 to 320).
Armament: As ordered :
UD: 28 × 18-pounder guns
QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 12 × 32-pounder carronades (later ships had 14 of these carronades and no 9-pounders)
FC: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

The Lively class sailing frigates were a series of sixteen ships built to a 1799 design by Sir William Rule, which served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

They were considered the most successful British frigate design of the period, much prized by the Navy Board; after the prototype was launched in 1804 (by which time four more frigates had already been ordered to the same design), a further eleven sister-ships were ordered to her design, although this was slightly modified (in 1805) to have the gangways between forecastle and quarterdeck more integrated into the upperworks, a step towards the final enclosure of the waist.

The United States Navy ordered a frigate to the design of the captured HMS Macedonian in 1832, which was launched in 1836 as USS Macedonian.[1]

Ships in class

References

  1. ^ De Kay, James Tertius (2000). Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, 1809-1922. W. W. Norton & Co.. ISBN 978-0393320244.