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HMS Eurydice (1781)

History
RN Ensign
Name: HMS Eurydice
Ordered: 24 July 1776
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down: February 1777
Launched: 26 March 1781
Completed: 3 June 1781
Honours and
awards:		 Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique"
Fate: Broken up in March 1834
General characteristics
Class and type: 24-gun Porcupine-class post ship
Tons burthen: 521.3 (bm)
Length:
  • 114 ft 3 in (34.82 m) (overall)
  • 94 ft 2.75 in (28.7211 m) (keel)
Beam: 32 ft 3 in (9.83 m)
Draught:
  • 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m)
  • 11 ft (3.4 m)
Depth of hold: 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 160 (140 by 1815)
Armament:
  • As built:
  • Upper deck (UD): 22 x  9-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 x  6-pounder bow chasers
  • By 1815:
  • UD: 14 x  9-pounder guns + 8 x  18-pounder carronades
  • QD: 2 x  6-pounder guns

HMS Eurydice was a 24-gun Porcupine-class post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1781 and broken up in 1834. During her long career she saw service in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. She captured a number of enemy privateers and served in the East and West Indies, the Mediterranean and British and American waters.

Eurydice was ordered from Portsmouth Dockyard on 24 July 1776, and was laid down in February 1777. She was initially worked on by Master Shipwright Nicholas Phillips until April 1779, and then by George White. She was launched on 26 March 1781 and completed for service on 3 June 1781. She had cost £12,391.4.0d to build, this sum including fitting and coppering. She was commissioned under her first captain, George Wilson, in March 1781.

Wilson sailed initially to the Leeward Islands, arriving in Frigate Bay, St Kitts on either 25 or 26 January 1782. Eurydice was present at the Battle of the Saintes on 12 April 1782, and then returned to Britain carrying the dispatches.

She came under the command of Captain George Courtnay in April 1782, under whom she served in the English Channel and off the Channel Islands. She joined John Elliot’s squadron in Autumn 1782 and on 14 October 1782 she captured the French Amis off Île de Batz.

Eurydice was paid off between 1782 and 1783 but recommissioned in April 1783. An 18-year-old Fletcher Christian, later to be the instigator of the mutiny on the Bounty, signed on aboard HMS Eurydice on 25 April 1783 at Spithead. She was the first Royal Navy ship that Christian signed on to.


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