HMS Alarm (1758)

Alarm conducting a Spanish prize into Gibraltar
History
RN EnsignGreat Britain
NameHMS Alarm
BuilderBarnard, Harwich
Launched19 September 1758
FateBroken up September 1812
General characteristics
Class and typeNiger-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen683 bm
Length125 ft (38 m)
Beam35 ft 6 in (10.82 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • Upperdeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns
Lines Plan for Alarm
Capture of the Spanish ships Thetis and Phenix by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Alarm off Havana on 2 June 1762, by Dominic Serres.

HMS Alarm was a 32-gun fifth-rate Niger-class frigate of the Royal Navy, and was the first Royal Navy ship to bear this name. She was built at King's Yard in Harwich by John Barnard.[1]

Copper-sheathed in 1761, she was the first ship in the Royal Navy to have a fully copper-sheathed hull.[2][3]

  1. ^ "John Barnard (1705-1784)".
  2. ^ Copper sheathing, Global Security.
  3. ^ Oldcopper.com Archived 18 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine