HMS Myrmidon (1813)

Myrmidon
History
United Kingdom
NameMyrmidon
NamesakeMyrmidons
Ordered2 August 1811
BuilderMilford Dockyard
Laid downJuly 1812
Launched18 June 1813
Completed6 February 1814
CommissionedAugust 1814
FateBroken up by 10 January 1823
General characteristics
Class and typeHermes-class post ship
Tons burthen509 25/94 bm
Length
  • 119 ft 11 in (36.6 m) (gundeck)
  • 99 ft 10 in (30.4 m) (keel)
Beam31 ft (9.4 m)
Draught10 ft 3 in (3.1 m)
Depth8 ft 8 in (2.6 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement135
Armament
  • 18 × 32-pounder carronades
  • 2 × 9-pounder cannon

HMS Myrmidon was a 20-gun Hermes-class sixth-rate post ship built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. She was commissioned in 1813 and was in the Mediterranean four years later. The ship was on the Africa Station in 1819 and was paid off three years later. Myrmidon was broken up in 1823.