HMS Ulysses (1779)
History | |
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Great Britain | |
Name: | HMS Ulysses |
Ordered: | 16 April 1777 |
Builder: | John Fisher, Liverpool |
Laid down: | 28 June 1777 |
Launched: | 14 July 1779 |
Completed: |
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Commissioned: | May 1779 |
In service: |
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Fate: | Sold at Sheerness Dockyard, 1815 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | 44-gun Roebuck-class fifth-rate frigate |
Tons burthen: | 887 8⁄94 bm |
Length: |
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Beam: | 38 ft 0 in (11.6 m) |
Depth of hold: | 16 ft 4.75 in (5.00 m) |
Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
Complement: | 280 (320 from 1783) |
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HMS Ulysses was a 48-gun Roebuck-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. Commissioned in 1779, her principal active service was in the Caribbean, interspersed with periods as a troopship and storeship. She was decommissioned and sold at Sheerness Dockyard in 1815.[1]
References
- ↑ Winfield 2007, pp. 176–178}}
Bibliography
- Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.
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