HMS Trepassey (1789)

Trepassey
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Trepassey
Ordered	May 1789
Builder	Lester & Stone, Newfoundland
Launched	1789
Fate	Last listed in 1807
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Placentia-class sloop
Tons burthen	4233⁄94 (bm)
Length	44 ft 7 in (13.6 m) (overall) 35 ft 4+5⁄8 in (10.8 m) (keel)
Beam	15 ft 0 in (4.6 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 4 in (2.5 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Sloop
Complement	30
Armament	4 x ½-pounder swivel guns

HMS Trepassey (or Trepassy) was the second vessel of her two vessel class, with both vessels being launched in 1789. John Henslow designed the small sloops for coastal patrol duties off Newfoundland, "to protect the fisheries and inquiring into abuses."^[2] In 1793, after the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, she accepted the surrender of Miquelon. This appears to have been the highpoint of her career. She disappears from the records in 1807.