HMS Cleopatra (1779)

HMS Cleopatra, depicted in a print by Nicholas Pocock
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Cleopatra
Ordered	13 May 1778
Builder	James Martin Hillhouse, Bristol
Laid down	6 July 1778
Launched	26 November 1779
Completed	By 9 September 1780
Fate	Broken up by 21 September 1814
Notes	Participated in: Battle of Dogger Bank
General characteristics
Class and type	32-gun Amazon-class fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen	689 17/94 bm
Length	126 ft 5 in (38.5 m) (overall) 104 ft 6.25 in (31.9 m) (keel)
Beam	35 ft 2.5 in (10.7 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 1.75 in (3.70 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	220
Armament	Upper deck: 26 × 12-pdrs Quarter deck: 4 × 6 pdrs + 4 × 18-pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs + 2 × 18-pdr carronades

HMS Cleopatra was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had a long career, seeing service during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the latter wars she fought two notable engagements with larger French opponents. In the first engagement she was forced to surrender, but succeeded in damaging the French ship so badly that she was captured several days later, while Cleopatra was retaken. In the second she forced the surrender of a 40-gun frigate. After serving under several notable commanders she was broken up towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars.