HMS Jason (1800)

Drawing of Jason's sister ship Penelope
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Jason
Ordered15 September 1798
Laid downOctober 1798
Launched27 January 1800
Completed28 May 1800
CommissionedMarch 1800
FateWrecked 21 July 1801
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeFifth-rate Penelope-class frigate
Tons burthen1,0529194 (bm)
Length
  • 150 ft 2+12 in (45.8 m) (gundeck)
  • 125 ft 5 in (38.2 m) (keel)
Beam39 ft 8+34 in (12.1 m)
Draught
  • 10 ft 5 in (3.2 m) (forwards)
  • 14 ft 5 in (4.4 m) (aft)
Depth of hold13 ft 0+34 in (4 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement274
Armament
  • UD: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Jason was a 36-gun fifth-rate Penelope-class frigate, launched in 1800. She served the entirety of her career in the English Channel, mostly in the frigate squadron of Commodore Charles Cunningham. Serving off the coast of France, especially around Le Havre and Cherbourg, she captured several French privateers and recaptured a British merchant ship in a cutting out expedition. Having only been in commission for around fifteen months, Jason was wrecked off the coast of St Malo on 21 July 1801. Her crew were saved and later exchanged, and in August her wreck was burned to prevent the French from rescuing it.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), pp. 365–366.