Cyrus-class ship-sloop

Class overview
Name	Cyrus Class post ships
Operators	Royal Navy
Completed	16
General characteristics
Type	Sixth rate post ship
Tons burthen	454 80/94 (as designed)
Length	115 ft 6 in (35.20 m) (gundeck) 97 ft 2 in (29.62 m) (keel)
Beam	29 ft 8 in (9.04 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Sail plan	Full rigged ship
Complement	135.
Armament	UD: 20 × 32-pounder carronades and 2 × 6-pounder guns

The Cyrus class sailing Sixth rates were a series of sixteen post ships built to an 1812 design by Sir William Rule, which served in the Royal Navy at the end of the Napoleonic War.

Ships in class

• HMS Medina
  • Builder: Edward Adams, Bucklers Hard
  • Ordered: 18 November 1812
  • Laid down: January 1813
  • Launched: 13 August 1813
  • Completed: 20 December 1813 at Portsmouth Dockyard
  • Fate: Sold to be brken up at Rotherhithe in 1832.
• HMS Cyrus
• HMS Levant
• HMS Esk
• HMS Carron
• HMS Tay
• HMS Slaney
• HMS Erne
• HMS Leven
• HMS Falmouth
• HMS Cyrene
• HMS Bann
• HMS Spey
• HMS Lee
• HMS Hind
• HMS Larne

References

• Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817, Chatham Publishing, London 2005.