HMS Nymphe (1812)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Nymphe.

History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Nymphe
Ordered14 December 1810
BuilderGeorge Parsons, Bursledon
Laid downNovember 1811
Launched13 April 1812
CommissionedMay 1812
FateBroken up
General characteristics [1]
Class and type38-gun Fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen1087+9⁄94 (bm)
Length154 ft 2 in (47.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam39 ft 8 in (12.1 m)
Depth of hold14 ft 4 in (4.4 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement284 officers and men (later 300)
Armament
  • Upper deck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 12 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Nymphe was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1812 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month. She was a Lively class of 18-pounder frigates, designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir William Rule. It was probably the most successful British frigate design of the Napoleonic Wars, to which fifteen more sister ships would be ordered between 1803 and 1812.[1]

  1. ^ a b Winfield 2008, p. 173.