Artois-class frigate

The Artois class were a series of nine frigates built to a 1793 design by Sir John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Seven of these ships were built by contract with commercial builders, while the remaining pair (Tamar and Clyde) were dockyard-built - the latter built using "fir" (pitch pine) instead of the normal oak.

They were armed with a main battery of 28 eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate. Besides this battery, they also carried two 9-pounders together with twelve 32-pounder carronades on the quarter deck, and another two 9-pounders together with two 32-pounder carronades on the forecastle.

Ships in class 

 Builder:  John & William Wells, Rotherhithe
 Ordered: 28 March 1793
 Laid down:  March 1793
 Launched:  3 January 1794
 Completed: 3 March 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
 Fate:  Wrecked on the Ballieu rocks off Brittany on 31 July 1797

 Builder:  Randall & Co, Rotherhithe
 Ordered: 28 March 1793
 Laid down:  March 1793
 Launched:  3 March 1794
 Completed: 6 June 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
 Fate:  Sold to new Dutch Navy on 7 March 1815; burnt in fire at Willemsoord, Den Helder on 16 January 1839.

 Builder:  Perry & Hankey, Blackwall
 Ordered: 28 March 1793
 Laid down:  March 1793
 Launched:  18 March 1794
 Completed: 23 September 1794 at Woolwich Dockyard
 Fate:  Wrecked on the Haak sands off the Dutch coast on 7 January 1799

 Builder:  William Barnard, Deptford
 Ordered: 28 March 1793
 Laid down:  April 1793
 Launched:  17 March 1794
 Completed: 6 June 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
 Fate:  Broken up at Sheerness Dockyard in June 1812

 Builder:  John Dudman, Deptford
 Ordered: 1 April 1793
 Laid down:  April 1793
 Launched:  3 April 1794
 Completed: 25 July 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
 Fate:  Wrecked on rocks off Brittany on 13 October 1798

 Builder:  Marmaduke Stalkart, Rotherhithe
 Ordered: 14 February 1793
 Laid down:  March 1793
 Launched:  11 June 1794
 Completed: 16 September 1794 at Deptford Dockyard
 Fate:  Broken up at Plymouth Dockyard in July 1819

 Builder:  Chatham Royal Dockyard
 Ordered:   4 February 1795
 Laid down:  June 1795
 Launched:  26 March 1796
 Completed: 21 June 1796
 Fate:  Broken up in January 1810 at Chatham Dockyard.

 Builder:  Chatham Royal Dockyard
 Ordered:   4 February 1795
 Laid down:  June 1795
 Launched:  26 March 1796
 Completed: 21 June 1796
 Fate:  Sold to be broken up August 1814.

 Builder:  Joseph Graham, Harwich
 Ordered: 30 April 1795
 Laid down:  October 1795
 Launched:  14 March 1797
 Completed: 11 July 1797 at Chatham Dockyard
 Fate:  Wrecked on the Penmarcks on 25 December 1799

References
Robert Gardiner, The Heavy Frigate, Conway Maritime Press, London 1994.
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. .

 
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