Endymion-class frigate

Class overview
Builders	John Randall & Company, Rotherhithe (Endymion) Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall Yard (Severn, Liffey, Liverpool, Glasgow, & Forth)
Operators	Royal Navy
Built	1795–1814
In commission	1797–1859
Completed	6
General characteristics
Type	40-gun fifth rates, rerated as 50-gun fourth rates in 1817
Tons burthen	1,468 11⁄94 (as designed)
Length	159 ft 2 in (48.5 m) on gundeck
Beam	41 ft 2 in (12.5 m)
Draught	12 ft 4 in (3.8 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Speed	14.4 knots (16.6 mph; 26.7 km/h)
Complement	300 (later 340)
Armament	UD: 26 × 24-pounder guns 28 × 24-pounder guns QD: 14 (later 16) × 32-pounder carronades FC: 2 × 9-pounder guns and 4 × 32-pounder carronades

The Endymion class was a class of six Royal Navy 40-gun fifth-rate frigates, with the prototype launched in 1797 and five slightly amended versions built of fir launched from 1813 to 1814.