HMS Phoebe (1795)
Capture of Néréide by HMS Phoebe, on 20 December 1797, by Thomas Whitcombe, 1816
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| Name: | HMS Phoebe |
| Ordered: | 24 May 1794 |
| Builder: | John Dudman, Deptford Wharf |
| Laid down: | June 1794 |
| Launched: | 24 September 1795 |
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| Fate: | Sold 1841 |
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| Class and type: | Phoebe-class frigate |
| Type: | 36-gun 18-pounder fifth rate |
| Tonnage: | 926 8⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 38 ft 3 in (11.66 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 15 ft 5 1⁄2 in (4.712 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Ship rigged. |
| Complement: | 264 |
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HMS Phoebe was a 36-gun fifth rate of the British Royal Navy. She had a career of almost twenty years and fought in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Overall, her crews were awarded six clasps to the Naval General Service Medals, with two taking place in the French Revolutionary Wars, three during the Napoleonic Wars and the sixth in the War of 1812. Three of the clasps carried the name Phoebe. During her career, Phoebe sailed to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, North America and South America.
Once peace finally arrived, Phoebe was laid up, though she spent a few years as a slop ship during the 1820s. She was then hulked. The Admiralty finally sold her for breaking up in 1841.
She was one of four frigates that the Admiralty ordered on 24 May 1794 to a design by Sir John Henslow, Surveyor of the Navy. The contract for the first ship was placed with the Thames-side yard of John Dudman, where the keel was laid in June 1794. She was named Phoebe on 26 February 1795 and was launched on 24 September 1795 at Deptford Wharf on the Thames. She then moved to Deptford Dockyard, where she was completed on 23 December.
Phoebe was first commissioned in October 1795 under Captain Robert Barlow, for the Irish Coast and Edward Pellew's squadron. On 10 January 1797, after an eight-hour chase, she captured the 16-gun Atalante, under the command of Lieutenant Dordelin, off the Isles of Scilly. Atalante had a crew of 112 men. She was a three-year-old brig with a coppered hull and an 80-foot keel. The Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name.
In 1797 Phoebe was off Brest as part of an inshore squadron of frigates under Sir Edward Pellew in Indefatigable. The squadron included Amazon, Révolutionnaire and the hired armed lugger Duke of York.
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