HMS Thisbe (1783)

HMS Thisbe (1783)
HMS Thisbe (1783)
	Thisbe at sea in a hurricane on 23 August 1798
Name:	HMS Thisbe
Ordered:	23 February 1782
Builder:	Thomas King, Dover
Laid down:	September 1782
Launched:	25 November 1783
Completed:	19 April 1784
Commissioned:	December 1787
Honours and; awards:	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"
Fate:	Sold to be broken up, 9 August 1815
General characteristics
Class & type:	Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:	596 57⁄94 (bm)
Length:	120 ft 6 in (36.73 m) (gundeck) ; 99 ft 5 3⁄8 in (30.312 m) (keel)
Beam:	33 ft 7 in (10.24 m)
Depth of hold:	11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	200 officers and men
Armament:	Gundeck: 24 × 9-pounder guns; QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 x 18-pounder carronades; Fc: 2 x 18-pounder carronades

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

HMS Thisbe was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Thisbe first was commissioned in December 1787 under the command of Captain George Robinson.

Because Thisbe served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.^{[Note 1]}

Notes, citations, and references[]

Notes

↑ A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of an able seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.^[2]

Citations

↑ "No. 21077". 15 March 1850. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21077/page/
↑ "No. 17915". 3 April 1823. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/17915/page/

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.

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[3] A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of an able seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.^[2]

[1] "No. 21077". 15 March 1850. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21077/page/

[2] "No. 17915". 3 April 1823. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/17915/page/

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HMS Thisbe (1783)
Thisbe at sea in a hurricane on 23 August 1798

Career (Great Britain)
Name:	HMS Thisbe
Ordered:	23 February 1782
Builder:	Thomas King, Dover
Laid down:	September 1782
Launched:	25 November 1783
Completed:	19 April 1784
Commissioned:	December 1787
Honours and awards:	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"^[1]
Fate:	Sold to be broken up, 9 August 1815

General characteristics
Class & type:	Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:	596 ⁵⁷⁄₉₄ (bm)
Length:	120 ft 6 in (36.73 m) (gundeck) 99 ft 5 ³⁄₈ in (30.312 m) (keel)
Beam:	33 ft 7 in (10.24 m)
Depth of hold:	11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	200 officers and men
Armament:	Gundeck: 24 × 9-pounder guns QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 x 18-pounder carronades Fc: 2 x 18-pounder carronades