HMS Cyclops (1779)

History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Cyclops
Ordered: 6 March 1778
Builder: James Menetone & Son, Limehouse
Laid down: 3 April 1778
Launched: 31 July 1779
Completed: 26 September 1779 (at Deptford Dockyard)
Commissioned: July 1779
Honours and
awards:		 Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
Fate: Sold for breaking up 1 September 1814
General characteristics
Class and type: 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen: 602 80⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 120 ft 6 in (36.73 m) (overall)
  • 99 ft 6 in (30.33 m) (keel)
Beam: 33 ft 9 in (10.3 m)
Depth of hold: 11 ft (3.4 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 200 officers and men
Armament:
  • Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 x 6-pounder guns + 4 x 18-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 x 18-pounder carronades
  • Also:12 x swivel guns

HMS Cyclops was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Cyclops was first commissioned in July 1779 under the command of Captain John Robinson.

In January 1783 she captured the French 14-gun brig Railleur on the North American station.[2]

Because Cyclops 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, which the Admiralty authorised in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[Note 1]

Notes and citations

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 a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.[3]
Citations
  1. ↑ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. ↑ Demerliac (1996), p.81, #526.
  3. ↑ "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.

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