HMS Circe (1804)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Circe.

History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Circe
Ordered16 March 1804
BuilderPlymouth Dockyard
Laid downJune 1804
Launched17 November 1804
CommissionedNovember 1804
Honours and
awards
FateSold on 20 August 1814
General characteristics [2]
Class and type32-gun fifth-rate Thames-class frigate
Tons burthen67025⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 127 ft (38.7 m) (overall)
  • 106 ft 10+7⁄8 in (32.6 m) (keel)
Beam34 ft 4 in (10.5 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 9 in (3.6 m)
Complement220
Armament
  • Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 8 × 24-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 4 × 24-pounder carronades

HMS Circe was a Royal Navy 32-gun fifth-rate frigate, built by Master Shipwright Joseph Tucker at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched in 1804.[2] She served in the Caribbean during the Napoleonic Wars, and participated in an action and a campaign for which in 1847 in the Admiralty authorised the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal with clasps. The action, off the Pearl Rock, near Saint-Pierre, Martinique, was a debacle that cost Circe dearly. However, she also had some success in capturing privateers and a French brig. She was sold in 1814.

  1. ^ a b "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 242.
  2. ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 212.