HMS Diana (1794)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Diana.
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Diana
Ordered: 28 March 1793
Builder: Randall & Brent, Rotherhithe
Laid down: March 1793
Launched: 3 March 1794
Completed: 6 June 1794
Out of service: Sold to the Dutch Navy on 7 March 1815
Honours and
awards:		 Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
Career (Netherlands)
Name: Diana
Acquired: Bought from the British on 7 March 1815
Fate: Destroyed in dry-dock accident on 16 January 1839
General characteristics
Type:38-gun Artois-class fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen:999 3⁄94 bm
Length:146 ft 3 in (44.6 m) (overall)
121 ft 8 1⁄2 in (37.1 m) (keel)
Beam:39 ft 3 1⁄2 in (12.0 m)
Depth of hold:13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
Sail plan:Full-rigged ship
Complement:270 (later 315)
Armament:Upper deck: 28 x 18-pounder guns

QD: 2 x 9-pounder guns + 12 x 32-pounder carronades

Fc: 2 x 9-pounder guns + 2 x 32-pounder carronades

HMS Diana was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1794.

Because Diana served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[Note 1]

Diana participated in an attack on a French frigate squadron anchored at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue at the Action of 15 November 1810, which ultimately led to the destruction of the Elisa.

On 7 March 1815 HMS Diana was sold to the Dutch navy for £36,796. On 27 August 1816 she was one of six Dutch frigates that participated in the bombardment of Algiers.

Fate

HMS Diana was destroyed in a fire on 16 January 1839 while in dry-dock at Willemsoord, Den Helder.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes
  1. ↑ A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of an able seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.[2]
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