HMS Rose (1783)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Rose.
Career (Great Britain)
Name: HMS Rose
Ordered: 15 March 1782
Builder: Joshua Stewart and Mr Hall
Sandgate, Kent
Laid down: June 1782
Launched: 1 July 1783
Completed: 23 October 1783
Commissioned: August 1783
Fate: Wrecked off Jamaica, 28 June 1794
General characteristics
Class and type:Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:598 55⁄94 (bm)
Length:120 ft 5 1⁄2 in (36.716 m) (gundeck)
99 ft 5 in (30.30 m) (keel)
Beam:33 ft 7 3⁄4 in (10.255 m)
Depth of hold:11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Sail plan:Full-rigged ship
Complement:200 officers and men
Armament:Gundeck: 24 × 9-pounder guns
QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 x 18-pounder carronades
Fc: 2 x 18-pounder carronades

HMS Rose was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Rose was first commissioned in August 1783 under the command of Captain James Hawkins.

Fate

Rose, under the command of Captain Matthew Scott, left Port Royal, Jamaica on 26 June.[1] The next day she encountered a merchant vessel that passed on the news that Admiral Sir John Jervis and his fleet were off Basse Terre, which news led Scott to attempt to meet up with them. The night of 28 June was dark, and rain squalls hid the sound of breakers, with the result that at 9pm Rose hit a reef off Rocky Point, Jamaica. The crew threw guns overboard and cut away her anchors, top masts and mizen-mast, all in a futile attempt to lighten her and get her off the rocks. In the morning, as she filled with water, her crew abandoned ship in her boats and on rafts they fashioned out of booms and spars.[1]

Citations

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hepper (1994), p.76.

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