HMS Eurydice (1781)

History
Great Britain
NameHMS Eurydice
Ordered24 July 1776
BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard
Laid downFebruary 1777
Launched26 March 1781
Completed3 June 1781
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique"[1]
FateBroken up in March 1834
General characteristics
Class and type24-gun Porcupine-class post ship
Tons burthen521.3 (bm)
Length
  • 114 ft 3 in (34.82 m) (overall)
  • 94 ft 2+34 in (28.721 m) (keel)
Beam32 ft 3 in (9.83 m)
Draught
  • 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m)
  • 11 ft (3.4 m)
Depth of hold10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement160 (140 by 1815)
Armament
  • As built:
  • Upper deck (UD): 22 × 9-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 6-pounder bow chasers
  • By 1815:
  • UD: 14 × 9-pounder guns + 8 × 18-pounder carronades
  • QD: 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Eurydice was a 24-gun Porcupine-class post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1781 and broken up in 1834. During her long career she saw service in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. She captured a number of enemy privateers and served in the East and West Indies, the Mediterranean and British and American waters.

  1. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 242.