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|Ship type=*[[Sixth rate]] 
*(later rated as [[ship sloop]]s)
|Ship tons burthen=454 {{fraction|80|94}} (as designed)
|Ship length=*{{convert|115|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck)
*{{convert|97|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}} (keel)
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|Ship complement=135
|Ship armament=*UD: 20 × 32-pounder carronades
*and 2 × 6-pounder chase guns 
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The '''''Cyrus''-class''' [[sixth rate]]s of the [[Royal Navy]] were a series of sixteen-flush decked [[sloops of war]] built to an 1812 design by Sir William Rule, the [[Surveyor of the Navy]]. The first nine ships of the class were launched in 1813 and the remaining seven in 1814. The vessels of the class served at the end of the [[Napoleonic War]]. They were built on the lines of {{HMS|Hermes|1811|6}}, which was based in turn on the French ship {{HMS|Bonne Citoyenne|1796|2}}.

The ''Cyrus'' class was intended to be the counter to the new [[USS Frolic (1813)|''Frolic''-class]] ship-rigged sloops that were under construction for the [[United States Navy]]. No encounter took place between any vessel of the ''Frolic'' class and one of the ''Cyrus'' class, but [[HMS Levant (1813)|HMS ''Levant'']] was captured by the American frigate {{USS|Constitution}}.<ref>Gardiner, p. 87</ref>

With the re-organisation of the rating system which took place in the Royal Navy effective from 1 January 1817, the ''Cyrus''-class flush-decked ships were re-classified as 20-gun sloops.

==Ships in class==

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Ordered
! Builder
! Laid down
! Launched
! Completed
! Fate
|-
| [[HMS Medina (1813)|''Medina'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Edward Adams, [[Bucklers Hard]]
| January 1813
| 13 August 1813
| 20 December 1813 at [[Portsmouth Dockyard]]
| Sold to be broken up at [[Rotherhithe]] in 1832.
|-
| [[HMS Cyrus (1813)|''Cyrus'']]
| 18 November 1812
| William Courtney, [[Chester]]
| January 1813
| 26 August 1813
| 11 March 1814 at [[Plymouth Dockyard]]
| Sold to be broken up at [[Plymouth]] in 1823
|-
| [[HMS Levant (1813)|''Levant'']]
| 18 November 1812
| William Courtney, [[Chester]]
| January 1813
| 8 December 1813
| 22 April 1814 at [[Plymouth Dockyard]]
| Broken up at [[Chatham Dockyard|Chatham]] in 1820
|-
| [[HMS Esk (1813)|''Esk'']]
| 18 November 1812
| [[Jabez Bayley]], [[Ipswich]]
| March 1813
| 11 October 1813
| 14 June 1814 at [[Sheerness]]
| Sold at [[Chatham Dockyard|Chatham]] in 1829
|-
| [[HMS Carron (1813)|''Carron'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Edward Adams, [[Bucklers Hard]]
| March 1813
| 9 November 1813
| 22 March 1814 at [[Portsmouth Dockyard]]
| Wrecked near [[Puri|Puri, India]] in 1820
|-
| [[HMS Tay (1813)|''Tay'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Balthazar Adams, [[Bucklers Hard]]
| April 1813
| 26 November 1813
| 28 November 1814 at [[Portsmouth Dockyard]] (for sea)
| Wrecked in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] in 1816
|-
| [[HMS Slaney (1813)|''Slaney'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Josiah & Thomas Brindley, [[Frindsbury]]
| April 1813
| 9 December 1813
| 23 January 1815 at [[Chatham Dockyard]] (for sea)
| [[Hulk (ship type)#Receiving hulk|Receiving ship]] in [[Bermuda]] in 1832, BU in 1838
|-
| [[HMS Erne (1813)|''Erne'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Robert Newman, [[Dartmouth, Devon|Dartmouth]]
| March 1813
| 18 December 1813
| 30 March 1814 at [[Portsmouth Dockyard]]
| Wrecked on [[Sal, Cape Verde|Sal Island]] in 1819
|-
| [[HMS Leven (1813)|''Leven'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Jabez Bayley, [[Ipswich]]
| March 1813
| 23 December 1813
| 22 January 1815 at [[Sheerness]] (for sea) 
| Broken up at [[Deptford Dockyard]] in 1848
|-
| [[HMS Falmouth (1814)|''Falmouth'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Richard Chapman, [[Bideford]]
| April 1813
| 8 January 1814
| July 1815 at [[Plymouth Dockyard]] (for sea)
| Sold for mercantile use (renamed Protector) in 1825
|-
| [[HMS Cyrene (1814)|''Cyrene'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Richard Chapman, [[Bideford]]
| April 1813
| 4 June 1814
| 12 October 1818 at [[Plymouth Dockyard]] (for sea)
| Sold at [[Bombay]] in 1828
|-
| [[HMS Bann (1814)|''Bann'']]
| 18 November 1812
| John King, [[Upnor]]
| May 1813
| 8 January 1814
| 23 January 1815 at [[Chatham Dockyard]] (for sea)
| Sold at [[Chatham Dockyard|Chatham]] in 1829
|-
| [[HMS Spey (1814)|''Spey'']]
| 18 November 1812
| James Warwick, [[Totton and Eling|Eling]], [[Southampton]]
| May 1813
| 24 January 1814
| 7 February 1815 at [[Portsmouth Dockyard]] (for sea)
| Sold at [[Chatham Dockyard|Chatham]] in 1822
|-
| [[HMS Lee (1814)|''Lee'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Josiah & Thomas Brindley, [[Frindsbury]]
| March 1813
| 24 January 1814
| January 1815 at [[Plymouth Dockyard]] (for sea)
| Broken up at [[Plymouth Dockyard]] in 1822
|-
| [[HMS Hind (1814)|''Hind'']]
| 18 November 1812
| Robert Davy, [[Topsham, Devon|Topsham]], [[Exeter]]
| May 1813
| 8 March 1814
| 13 July 1819 [[Plymouth Dockyard]] (for sea)
| Sold at [[Bombay]] in 1829
|-
| [[HMS Larne (1814)|''Larne'']]
| 18 November 1812
| William Bottomley, [[King's Lynn]]
| July 1813
| 8 March 1814
| 12 January 1815 [[Sheerness]] (for sea)
| Sold for breaking up in 1828
|-
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{cite book|last=Gardiner|first=Robert|year=1996|title=The Naval War of 1812|publisher=Caxton pictorial history|isbn=1-84067-360-5}}
* Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817'', Chatham Publishing, London 2005.

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