HMS Shannon (1803)

Shannon on shore, by Edward Pelham Brenton, c.1803, in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Shannon
Ordered	8 July 1801
Builder	Josiah and Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury, Kent
Laid down	August 1801
Launched	2 September 1803
Fate	Wrecked 10 December 1803
General characteristics [1]
Type	36-gun Perseverance-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	88128⁄98 bm
Length	Overall: 137 ft 1+1⁄2 in (41.8 m) Keel: 113 ft 4+3⁄8 in (34.6 m)
Beam	38 ft 2+3⁄4 in (11.7 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 5+1⁄4 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	264
Armament	Upper deck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

The third HMS Shannon was a 36-gun Perseverance-class frigate of the British Royal Navy built at Frindsbury on the River Medway on the Thames Estuary. She was completed on 3 September 1803 during the Napoleonic Wars. Her name was changed from Pallas to Shannon shortly before construction, traditionally an omen of bad luck for a ship. In her case, she was wrecked within three months of her being launched.