HMS Liverpool (1814)

Ship's plan for Liverpool
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Liverpool
Builder	Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall Yard, London
Laid down	May 1813
Launched	21 February 1814
Commissioned	May 1814
Decommissioned	3 April 1816
Recommissioned	1818
Decommissioned	January 1822
Fate	Sold, 1822
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Endymion-class frigate, reclassified as a fourth rate
Tons burthen	124686⁄94 bm
Length	159 ft (48.5 m) (overall)
Beam	41 ft (12.5 m)
Draught	12 ft 4 in (3.8 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement	300
Armament	Upper deck: 28 × 24-pounder guns QD: 16 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Liverpool was a Royal Navy Endymion-class frigate, reclassified as a fourth rate.^[1] She was built by Wigram, Wells and Green and launched at Woolwich on 21 February 1814. She was built of pitch-pine, which made for speedy construction at the expense of durability.

Her major service was on the East Indies Station from where in 1819 she led the successful punitive campaign against the Al Qasimi, a belligerent naval power based in Ras Al Khaimah which the British considered to be piratical. She was sold in 1822 but continued to operate in the Persian Gulf for an indefinite period thereafter.