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HMS Cyane stern.jpg
A model of HMS Cyane showing her after her capture by USS Constitution
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Class overview
Name: Banterer-class post ships
Operators:  Royal Navy
Completed: 6
General characteristics
Type Sixth-rate post ship
Tons burthen 537 2/94 (as designed)
Length
  • 118 ft (36 m) (gundeck)
  • 98 ft 7.125 in (30.05138 m) (keel)
Beam 32 ft (9.8 m)
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Complement 155 (later raised to 175).
Armament
  • As ordered :
  • Upperdeck: 22 × 9-pounder guns
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 24-pounder carronades
  • Focsle: 2 × 6-pounder guns
  • + 2 × 24-pounder carronades
  • Later:
  • Upperdeck: 22 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 24-pounder carronades
  • Focsle: 2 × 6-pounder guns
  • + 2 × 24-pounder carronades

The Banterer-class sailing sixth rates were a series of six 22-gun post ships built to an 1805 design by Sir William Rule, which served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. The first four were launched in 1806 and the remaining two in 1807. One ship – the Banterer – was lost in 1808 and another – the Cyane – captured by the United States Navy in 1815; the remaining four were all deleted during 1816.

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