HMS Coventry (1757)

Coventry was built to the same design as HMS Carysfort, (pictured)
History
RN EnsignGreat Britain
NameHMS Coventry
OperatorRoyal Navy
Ordered13 April 1756
Awarded28 April 1756
BuilderHenry Adams's yard, Bucklers Hard
Laid down31 May 1756
Launched30 May 1757
Completed31 July 1757 at Portsmouth Dockyard
CommissionedMay 1757
Out of service
  • 1757–1763
  • 1763–1768
  • 1775–1783
Honours and
awards
Captured12 January 1783 off Ganjam, Bay of Bengal
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameCoventry
AcquiredJanuary 1783 by capture
DecommissionedJanuary 1785 at Brest
In service1783–1785
FateBroken up, 1786
General characteristics
Class and typeCoventry-class frigate
Displacement850 tons (French)
Tons burthen599 2594 (bm)
Length
  • 118 ft 4+34 in (36.087 m) (gundeck)
  • 97 ft 0+12 in (29.578 m) (keel)
Beam34 ft 0+78 in (10.385 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement
  • British service: 200
  • French service: 210 (war) and 130 (peace)
Armament
  • British service
  • Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 3-pounder guns
  • Also: 12 × swivel guns
  • French service
  • Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns
  • Spardeck: 4 × 6-pounders + 6 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Coventry was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1757 and in active service as a privateer hunter during the Seven Years' War, and as part of the British fleet in India during the Anglo-French War. After seventeen years' in British service she was captured by the French in 1783, off Ganjam in the Bay of Bengal. Thereafter she spent two years as part of the French Navy until January 1785 when she was removed from service at the port of Brest. She was broken up in 1786.