HMS Pyramus (1810)

HMS Pyramus at Portsmouth Dockyard on 6 September 1825, drawn by John Christian Schetky
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Pyramus
Ordered	Initially:29 June 1805 Re-order:May 1808
Builder	Charles Greenword and Thomas Kidwell, Itchenor Re-order:Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	Initially:April 1806 Re-order:November 1808
Launched	22 January 1810
Fate	Sold for breaking up in September 1879
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen	92020⁄94 (bm)
Length	Gundeck: 141 ft 1 in (43.00 m) Keel: 117 ft 2+5⁄8 in (35.728 m)
Beam	38 ft 5 in (11.71 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 0 in (3.66 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	264
Armament	Upper deck:26 × 18-pounder guns QD:2 × 9-pounder gun + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc:2 × 9-pounder gun + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Pyramus was a fifth-rate 36-gun frigate launched at Portsmouth in 1810. During the Napoleonic Wars she captured some small privateers. She was hulked in 1832–1833 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. The vessel was sold and broken up in 1879.