HMS Undaunted (1807)

HMS Undaunted off Dover, by Thomas Whitcombe
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Undaunted
Ordered7 November 1803
BuilderWoolwich Dockyard
Laid downApril 1806
Launched17 October 1807
Completed2 December 1807
CommissionedOctober 1807
DecommissionedOctober 1815
RecommissionedAugust 1827
DecommissionedFebruary 1834
FateBroken up, 1860
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeLively-class frigate
Tons burthen1,086 tons bm
Length
  • 154 ft 9 in (47.17 m) (gundeck)
  • 130 ft 3.75 in (39.7193 m) (keel)
Beam39 ft 7 in (12.07 m)
Draught
  • 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) (forward)
  • 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) (aft)
Depth of hold13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement284
Armament
  • In 1807
  • FC: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
  • QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 12 × 32-pounder carronades
  • UD: 28 × 18-pounder guns

HMS Undaunted was a Lively-class fifth-rate 38-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy, built during the Napoleonic Wars, which conveyed Napoleon to his first exile on the island of Elba in early 1814.

  1. ^ Winfield 2005, p. 172.