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History
United Kingdom
Name HMS Mersey
Ordered 18 January 1813
Builder William Courtney, Chester
Laid down March 1813
Launched March 1814
Commissioned September 1818
Fate Broken up in July 1852
General characteristics
Class and type 20-gun sixth-rate Conway-class post ship
Tons burthen 450.7 long tons (458 t)
Length
  • 108 ft 6 in (33.1 m) (gundeck)
  • 90 ft 1.25 in (27.5 m) (keel)
Beam 30 ft 8 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold 9 ft (2.74 m)
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Complement 155
Armament
  • 20 guns:
  • UD: 18 × 32 pdrs carronades
  • QD: 6 x 12-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 x 12-pounder carronades
  • and 2 × 6 pdr chase guns

The first HMS Mersey was a Conway-class 20-gun sixth-rate post ship, launched in 1814; she was re-rated as 26 guns in 1817. She was launched too late to see action in the Napoleonic War, though she nevertheless had a long and distinguished career that took her to Halifax Station in 1818 and then the South American station in 1824 until her departure in 1827, when she was then deployed to the Caribbean station from that year until 1831. She was eventually broken up in 1852.

Sources

  • Rif Winfield. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-84415-717-4.
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