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 | list error: <br /> list (help) 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 of the Royal Navy were a series of sixteen post ships built to an 1812 design by Sir William Rule. 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. Built on the lines of the HMS Hermes, which was based on the French ship Bon Citoyenne. They were to be the counter to the new Frolic Class Ship Rigged Brig Sloops that the United States was building at that time. No such battle was ever fought between the classes however. the HMS Levant did meet the USS Constitution in battle however.[1]
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 broken 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.