HMS Coventry (1757)

Career (Great Britain)
Name:	HMS Coventry
Operator:	Royal Navy
Ordered:	13 April 1756
Awarded:	28 April 1756
Builder:	Henry Adams's yard, Bucklers Hard
Laid down:	31 May 1756
Launched:	30 May 1757
Completed:	31 July 1757 at Portsmouth Dockyard
Commissioned:	May 1757
Captured:	12 January 1783
General characteristics
Class and type:	Coventry-class frigate
Tons burthen:	599 25⁄94 bm
Length:	118 ft 4.75 in (36.0871 m) (gundeck) 97 ft 0.5 in (29.578 m) (keel)
Beam:	34 ft 0.875 in (10.38543 m)
Depth of hold:	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	200 officers and men
Armament:	Upperdeck: 24 × 9-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 4 × 3-pounder guns 12 × swivel guns

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Coventry.

HMS Coventry was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was designed by Sir Thomas Slade "to the draught of the Tartar with such alterations withinboard as may be judged necessary", making her a further development of the Lyme. A further twelve ships were built to the draught of the Coventry between 1756 and 1763, as well as another five to a modified version of fir (pine) construction.

Fate

The ship was captured by the French in 1783.

References

• Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9.
• David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
• Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.