HMS Mersey (1814)

Career (Great Britain)
Name: HMS Mersey
Ordered: 18 January 1813
Builder: William Courtney, Chester
Laid down: March 1813
Launched: March 1814
Commissioned: September 1818
Fate: Broken up in July 1852
General characteristics
Class and type:20-gun sixth-rate Conway-class post ship
Tons burthen:450.7 long tons (458 t)
Length:108 ft 6 in (33.1 m) (gundeck)
90 ft 1.25 in (27.5 m) (keel)
Beam:30 ft 8 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold:9 ft (2.74 m)
Sail plan:Full-rigged ship
Complement:155
Armament:20 guns:
  • UD: 18 × 32 pdrs carronades
  • QD: 6 x 12-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 x 12-pounder carronades
    and 2 × 6 pdr chase guns
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Mersey.

The first HMS Mersey was a Conway-class 20-gun sixth rate post ship, launched in 1814; she was re-rated as 26 guns in 1817. She was too late to see action in the Napoleonic War, though she nevertheless had a long and distinguished career that took her to Halifax Station in 1818, then joining the South American station in 1824 till its departure in 1827, when she was then deployed to the Caribbean station from that year until 1831. She was eventually broken up in 1852.

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