HMS Clyde (1796)

History
HMS Clyde escapes from the Nore mutiny, 1797
Kingdom of Great Britain
Name:	HMS Clyde
Namesake:	River Clyde
Ordered:	4 February 1795
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard; M/shipwright Thomas Pollard until June 1795; Edward Sisson thereafter
Laid down:	June 1795
Launched:	26 March 1796
Fate:	Dismantled, 1805
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Relaunched:	28 February 1806
Fate:	Sold, August 1814
General characteristics
Class and type:	Artois-class fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen:	First incarnation:1020 ³⁴⁄₉₄ (bm) Second incarnation:991 (bm)
Length:	First incarnation:146 ft 0 in (44.50 m) (overall); 122 ft 0 ³⁄₄ in (37.205 m) (keel) Second incarnation:146 ft 0 in (44.50 m) (overall); 121 ft 4 ³⁄₄ in (37.001 m) (keel)
Beam:	First incarnation:39 ft 3 ¹⁄₂ in (11.976 m) Second incarnation:39 ft 2 in (11.94 m)
Draught:	First incarnation:9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) (unladen); 14 ft 1 in (4.29 m) (laden) Second incarnation:146 ft 0 in (44.50 m) (unladen)
Depth of hold:	First incarnation:13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) Second incarnation:13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
Complement:	270; later 315
Armament:	Upper deck:28 x 18-pounder guns QD:2 x 9-pounder guns + 12 x 32-pounder carronades Fc:2 x 9-pounder guns + 2 x 32-pounder carronades

HMS Clyde was a Royal Navy Artois-class frigate built at Chatham Dockyard of fir (pitch pine), and launched in 1796. In 1797, she was one of only two ships whose captains were able to maintain some control over their vessels during the Nore mutiny. In 1805, HMS Clyde was dismantled and rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard; she was relaunched on 23 February 1806. She was ultimately sold in August 1814.

Captain Charles Cunningham commissioned Clyde in April 1796. She was at the Nore at the time of the mutiny, but escaped to Sheerness on 29/30 May 1797.

Clyde and St Fiorenzo shared in the capture in November and December 1797 of the French brigs Minerva and Succès (or Success).Success was a privateer from Bayonne that been out 15 days and had only captured one American vessel.

In addition to the capture of Success on 13 December, St Fiorenzo and Clyde captured the privateer Dorade eight days later. The actual captor of Dorade was Clyde. Dorade was from Bordeaux and was pierced for 18 guns, though she only had 12. She had been out 50 days and had been cruising off the Azores and Madeira, but had captured nothing. She and her crew of 93 men were on their way home when Clyde captured her. Unfortunately, the commander of the prize crew hoisted too much sail with the result that Dorade overturned, drowning all 19 members of the prize crew.

In March 1798 Clyde captured two merchant vessels. She captured the ship Vrouw Classina on 22 March, and recaptured Anne two days later. Then in May Clyde captured Marie Perotte and in June recaptured Sea Nymphe.Clyde, San Fiorenzo, Phaeton, Anson, Mermaid, and Stag, shared in the capture of the chasse maree Marie Perotte and a sloop of unknown name, as well as the recapture of Sea Nymphe and Mary.

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