HMS Grampus (1802)
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| Name: | HMS Grampus |
| Ordered: | 9 December 1790 |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Laid down: | October 1792 |
| Launched: | 20 March 1802 |
| Commissioned: | March 1803 |
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| Fate: | Sold in late 1832 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Diomede-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1,114 31⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | |
| Beam: | 41 ft 10 1⁄2 in (12.8 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 17 ft 8 in (5.4 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 343 |
| Armament: | |
HMS Grampus was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Diomede class of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1802
She was commissioned in March 1803 at Portsmouth by Captain Hugh Downman, but in the following month command passed to Captain Thomas Gordon Caulfield. The ship was completed on 11 April 1803 and was ordered to the Downs on 7 May. As soon as her complement of men was completed and her bounty paid she sailed to join Admiral Edward Thornbrough's squadron off Goree.
On 19 May 1803 Jalouse captured Jong Jan Pieter.Jalouse shared the prize money with Grampus and the gun-brigs Censor and Vixen, with whom she had been in company.
Grampus returned to Portsmouth from Guernsey on 20 June to fit out for the East Indies and sailed with a convoy under her protection on 29 June. She carried £100,000 that the British East India Company was shipping to Bengal. On 16 October she was three days out of Rio and in company with the 74-gun third rate ship of the line HMS Russell. The East Indiamen they were escorting were Northampton, Lord Melville, Earl Spencer, Princess Mary, Anna, Ann, Glory, and Essex.Grampus spent 1805 in the East Indies.
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