HMS Hermes (1811)

Hermes
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Hermes
Ordered	18 January 1810
Builder	Milford Dockyard
Laid down	May 1810
Launched	22 July 1811
Completed	7 September 1811
Fate	Grounded in combat and burnt on 15 September 1814
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	20-gun Hermes-class sixth-rate post ship
Tons burthen	5127⁄94 (bm)
Length	120 ft 1 in (36.6 m) (overall) 100 ft 2+1⁄8 in (30.5 m) (keel)
Beam	31 ft 0 in (9.4 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	135
Armament	2 × 9-pounder guns + 18 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Hermes was a 20-gun Hermes-class sixth-rate flush-decked sloop-of-war built in Milford Dockyard to the lines of the ex-French Bonne Citoyenne. She was destroyed in 1814 to prevent her falling into American hands after grounding during her unsuccessful attack on Fort Bowyer on Mobile Point outside Mobile, Alabama.