HMS Gorgon (1785)

Gorgon
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Gorgon
NamesakeGorgon
Ordered19 June 1782
BuilderPerry & Hankey, Blackwall Yard
Laid downDecember 1782
Launched27 January 1785
Completed15 December 1787 at Portsmouth Dockyard
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
FateBroken up, February 1817
General characteristics [2]
Tons burthen896+5494 tons bm (as designed)
Length
  • 140 ft (43 m) (gundeck)
  • 115 ft 2+12 in (35.12 m) (keel)
Beam38 ft 3 in (11.66 m)
Depth of hold16 ft 10 in (5.13 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement300 (294 from 1794)
Armament
  • Lower deck: 20 ×  18-pounder guns
  • Upper deck: 22 ×  12-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 ×  6-pounder guns

HMS Gorgon was a 44-gun fifth-rate two-decker ship of the Adventure class of 911 tons, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1785 and completed as a troopship. She was subsequently converted to a storeship. She also served as a guardship and a hospital ship at various times before being broken up in 1817.

  1. ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 130.