HMS Briseis (1808)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Briseis.
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Briseis |
| Builder: | John King, Upnor |
| Launched: | 19 May 1808 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 5 November 1816 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Cherokee-class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 239 bm |
| Length: | 90 ft 3 in (27.51 m) |
| Beam: | 24 ft 7 in (7.49 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
| Complement: | 75 men and boys |
| Armament: | 8 x 18-pounder carronades 2 x 6-pounder guns |
HMS Briseis was a 10-gun Cherokee-class Royal Navy brig launched in 1808 at Upnor, on the River Medway.
James Clark Ross joined the Navy in April 1812 and served in this ship under the command of his uncle, John Ross.[1]
She was wrecked off Cuba on 5 November 1816.
In fiction
Briseis appears as part of Jack Aubrey's squadron in Patrick O'Brian's The Hundred Days, where she is described as "the little Briseis, one of that numerous class called coffin-brigs" (however, the real Briseis did not serve in the Mediterranean, where the novel's action is set).
References
- ↑ Clements Robert Markham (23 August 2012). The Royal Geographical Society and the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76: A Report. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-108-04971-9.
- Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- James, William (1837). The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV. R. Bentley.
- "HMS Briseis". Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels.
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