HMS Bellona (1794)

History
Great Britain
NameHMS Bellona
Acquired1794 by purchase
FateBroken up August 1806
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeSailing barge
Tons burthen86 (bm)
Complement25
Armament2 × 18-pounder guns + 1 × 32-pounder guns

HMS Bellona was a Thames sailing barge, one of 11 that the Admiralty purchased in 1794 and stationed at Woolwich. Mr. J. Woodward, a sailing master, commissioned her in 1796. Mr. Richard Simmons replaced him in 1798. She became a mud barge in December 1799; she was broken up in 1805.[1]

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 325.