HMS Thisbe (1783)

	Thisbe at sea in a hurricane on 23 August 1798
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Thisbe
Ordered	23 February 1782
Builder	Thomas King, Dover
Laid down	September 1782
Launched	25 November 1783
Completed	19 April 1784
Commissioned	December 1787
Honours and; awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"
Fate	Sold to be broken up, 9 August 1815
General characteristics
Class and type	Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	59657⁄94 (bm)
Length	120 ft 6 in (36.73 m) (gundeck); 99 ft 5+3⁄8 in (30.312 m) (keel);
Beam	33 ft 7 in (10.24 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	200 officers and men
Armament	Gundeck: 24 × 9-pounder guns; QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades; Fc: 2 × 18-pounder carronades;

HMS Thisbe was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.

Service

Thisbe on fire on 4 January 1786, caused by a lightning strike.
Nicholas Matthew Condy. A second lightning bolt on the same day had set her Main sail, Top on fire

Thisbe was first commissioned in December 1787 under the command of Captain George Robertson. Because Thisbe served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.^[a]

In 1804 Thisbe was in the Mediterranean. There she captured a privateer that she sent into Corfu. Thisbe also recaptured Wight, Ford, master, which had been sailing from Zant to London when the privater had captured her. '"Wight arrived at Portsmouth in September.^[3]

Notes

^ A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.^[2]

Citations

^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
^ "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.
^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4490. 21 September 1805. hdl:2027/hvd.32044050633072. Retrieved 12 May 2021.

References

Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9.
David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.

External links

Media related to HMS Thisbe (ship, 1783) at Wikimedia Commons

[3] A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.^[2]

[1] "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.

[2] "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.

[4] "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4490. 21 September 1805. hdl:2027/hvd.32044050633072. Retrieved 12 May 2021.

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