HMS Mermaid (1784)
Brutus captured by the Mermaid
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| Name: | HMS Mermaid |
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| Builder: | J. Pollard, Sheerness Dockyard |
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| Launched: | 29 November 1784 |
| Commissioned: | 30 December 1784 (for Ordinary), then June to August 1790 for sea duty |
| Fate: | Broken up in November 1815 |
| General characteristics As built | |
| Class and type: | 32-gun Active-class fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 692 59⁄94 bm |
| Length: | 126 ft 2 1⁄2 in (38.5 m) (overall); 1,036 ft 9 3⁄4 in (316.0 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 5 in (10.8 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 2 in (4.0 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 250 |
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HMS Mermaid was a 32-gun Active-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1784 and broken up in 1815. During the French Revolutionary Wars she served in the West Indies, the Channel, and the Mediterranean. During the Napoleonic Wars she first served in the Americas, but from early 1811 on, she was armed en flute and served as a troopship until she was broken up.
Mermaid was one of the eight ship Active class, designed by Edward Hunt. She was initially ordered from the shipwright George White, of Woolwich Dockyard Shipwright on 27 August 1778, and laid down in September 1778, but the order moved to John Jenner in April 1779. On 21 March 1782 the order was canceled and moved instead to Thomas Pollard, at Sheerness Dockyard, and the frigate was again laid down, on 29 July 1782. She was launched on 29 November 1782, and commissioned for the ordinary on 30 December 1784. She was commissioned again between June and August 1790 for sea. She had cost £12,854 to build, with another £2,539 paid for her fitting out in 1790. The Woolwich work had cost £1,807.
Mermaid was commissioned under Captain Cuthbert Collingwood in June 1790 during the Nootka Crisis. She sailed to the West Indies, but returned in April 1791 and was then paid off.
She was again fitted out, this time at Portsmouth for £3,446, between February and May 1793, commissioning in March that year under Captain John Trigge. She was assigned to the Mediterranean, departing Britain on 22 May 1793. On 27 May she and Tartar captured the 20-gun privateer Général Washington, and on 30 May 1793 Mermaid and Castor captured the 16-gun privateer Angélique.Mermaid also captured a 14-gun privateer in June that year. Mermaid then joined Admiral Samuel Hood's fleet at Toulon.
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