Artois-class frigate

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Design of the class
Class overview
Name	Artois class
Operators	Royal Navy  Royal Netherlands Navy
Preceded by	Pallas class
Succeeded by	Alcmene class
Completed	9
Lost	5
General characteristics
Type	Frigate
Tons burthen	983 70⁄94 bm (as designed)
Length	146 ft 0 in (44.5 m) (gundeck) 121 ft 7.125 in (37.1 m) (keel)
Beam	39 ft 0 in (11.9 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	270 (altered later to 315)
Armament	Upper deck: 28 × 18-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 2 × 9-pounder guns 12 × 32-pounder carronades Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounder guns 2 × 32-pounder carronades

The Artois class were a series of nine frigates built to a 1793 design by Sir John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Seven of these ships were built by contract with commercial builders, while the remaining pair (Tamar and Clyde) were dockyard-built – the latter built using "fir" (pitch pine) instead of the normal oak.

They were armed with a main battery of 28 eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate. Besides this battery, they also carried two 9-pounders together with twelve 32-pounder carronades on the quarterdeck, and another two 9-pounders together with two 32-pounder carronades on the forecastle.