HMS Redoubt (1793)

History
Great Britain
NameHMS Redoubt
AcquiredMarch 1793 by purchase
FateSold 1802
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen386494 (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 97 ft 5 in (29.7 m)
  • Keel: 81 ft 1+18 in (24.7 m)
Beam29 ft 11 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Complement150, or 146 (later)
Armament20 × 42-pounder carronades

HMS Redoubt was the mercantile Rover, which the Royal Navy purchased in March 1793 on the outbreak of war with France. The Navy fitted her as a floating battery. It sold her in 1802.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 382.