HMS Thetis (1773)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Thetis
Ordered	25 December 1770
Builder	Wyatt & Co. Buckler's Hard
Laid down	1771
Launched	1773
Commissioned	1777
Out of service	1781
Fate	Wrecked 1780
General characteristics as built
Class and type	32-gun fifth-rate Amazon-class frigate (1773) frigate
Length	126 ft 3 in (38.48 m) (gundeck); 104 ft 1 in (31.72 m) (keel);
Beam	35 ft 1.75 in (10.7125 m)
Draught	8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (forwards); 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) (aft);
Depth of hold	12 ft 2 in (3.71 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	220
Armament	Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns; QD: 4 x 6-pounder guns + 4 x 18-pounder carronades; Fc: 2 x 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades;

HMS Thetis was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built by Wyatt & Co. at Buckler's Hard shipyard in 1773. The French captured her in 1798 but the British recaptured her in 1803. She was broken up in 1810.

From 1777 to 1781 she served with the North American squadron.

Thetis took part in the Action of 9 August 1780, when a convoy she was escorting fell prey to a Franco-Spanish squadron. 55 merchantmen were captured, but she managed to escape.^[1]

In 1780, she was wrecked.^[2]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

^ Lacour-Gayet (1905), p. 318.
^ Michael Phillips' ships of the old Navy

References

Lacour-Gayet, Georges (1905). La marine militaire de la France sous le règne de Louis XVI. Paris: Honoré Champion. OCLC 763372623.
Michael Phillips' ships of the old Navy

[FOOTNOTELacour-Gayet1905318-1] Lacour-Gayet (1905), p. 318.

[2] Michael Phillips' ships of the old Navy

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