HMS Nymphe (1812)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Nymphe
Ordered	14 December 1810
Builder	George Parsons, Bursledon
Laid down	November 1811
Launched	13 April 1812
Commissioned	May 1812
Fate	Broken up
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	38-gun Fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen	1087+9⁄94 (bm)
Length	154 ft 2 in (47.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam	39 ft 8 in (12.1 m)
Depth of hold	14 ft 4 in (4.4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	284 officers and men (later 300)
Armament	Upper deck: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 12 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Nymphe was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1812 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month. She was a Lively class of 18-pounder frigates, designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir William Rule. It was probably the most successful British frigate design of the Napoleonic Wars, to which fifteen more sister ships would be ordered between 1803 and 1812.^[1]