HMS Cyclops (1779)

Cyclops
History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
NameHMS Cyclops
Ordered6 March 1778
BuilderJames Menetone & Son, Limehouse
Laid down3 April 1778
Launched31 July 1779
Completed26 September 1779 (at Deptford Dockyard)
CommissionedJuly 1779
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
FateSold for breaking up 1 September 1814
General characteristics
Class and type28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen6028094 (bm)
Length
  • 120 ft 6 in (36.73 m) (overall)
  • 99 ft 6 in (30.33 m) (keel)
Beam33 ft 9 in (10.3 m)
Depth of hold11 ft (3.4 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement200 officers and men
Armament
  • Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Also:12 × swivel guns

HMS Cyclops was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Cyclops was first commissioned in July 1779 under the command of Captain John Robinson.

In January 1783 she captured the French 14-gun brig Railleur on the North American station.[2]

Because Cyclops served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty authorised in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[Note 1]

  1. ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 81, #526.
  3. ^ "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.


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