HMS Arethusa (1817)

Arethusa
History
United Kingdom
Name	Arethusa
Namesake	Arethusa
Ordered	22 November 1812
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	February 1815
Launched	27 July 1817
Completed	29 September 1817
Commissioned	Never
Renamed	As Bacchus, 12 March 1844
Reclassified	As a quarantine ship, 1836 As coal hulk, 1851
Fate	Sold for scrap, 14 August 1883
General characteristics
Class and type	Leda-class frigate
Tons burthen	1084 60/94 bm
Length	150 ft 11 in (46.0 m) (gundeck) 126 ft 11 in (38.7 m) (keel)
Beam	40 ft 1 in (12.2 m)
Draught	14 ft 7 in (4.4 m)
Depth	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	315
Armament	46 guns: Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pdr cannon Quarterdeck: 14 × 32-pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 9-pdr cannon and 2 × 32-pdr carronades

HMS Arethusa was a 46-gun Leda-class fifth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. The ship was never commissioned and was converted into a lazarette (quarantine ship) in 1836. She was renamed HMS Bacchus in 1844 and was further converted into a coal hulk in 1851–52. The ship was sold for scrap in 1883.