HMS Resistance (1801)

Resistance's sister ship HMS Aigle
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Resistance
Ordered28 January 1800
BuilderGeorge Parsons, Bursledon
Laid downMarch 1800
Launched29 April 1801
Completed21 June 1801
CommissionedMay 1801
FateWrecked 31 May 1803
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeFifth-rate Aigle-class frigate
Tons burthen975894 (bm)
Length
  • 146 ft 1+14 in (44.5 m) (upper deck)
  • 122 ft 1 in (37.2 m) (keel)
Beam38 ft 9 in (11.8 m)
Draught
  • 10 ft 5 in (3.2 m) (forward)
  • 15 ft 7 in (4.7 m) (aft)
Depth of hold13 ft 0+12 in (4 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement264
Armament
  • UD: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 9-pounder guns + 8 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Resistance was a 36-gun fifth-rate Aigle-class frigate of the Royal Navy, one of a pair designed by Sir John Henslow. Resistance was commissioned in May 1801 by Captain Henry Digby, and after brief service in the English Channel the frigate left for Quebec in charge of a convoy. While on voyage Resistance captured the French privateer Elizabeth, which was the last ship captured during the French Revolutionary War. Having returned to England at the end of the year, the frigate resumed service in the English Channel, with Captain Philip Wodehouse replacing Digby. On 31 May 1803 Resistance was sailing to the Mediterranean Sea when she was wrecked off Cape St. Vincent; the crew survived.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 374.