Myrmidon
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Myrmidon |
Namesake | Myrmidons |
Ordered | 2 August 1811 |
Builder | Milford Dockyard |
Laid down | July 1812 |
Launched | 18 June 1813 |
Completed | 6 February 1814 |
Commissioned | August 1814 |
Fate | Broken up by 10 January 1823 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hermes-class post ship |
Tons burthen | 509 25/94 bm |
Length | |
Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Draught | 10 ft 3 in (3.1 m) |
Depth | 8 ft 8 in (2.6 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 135 |
Armament |
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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.