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A drawing of the HMS Semiramis inboard profile plan.HMS Semiramis inboard profile plan.
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Semiramis
NamesakeSemiramis, legendary Assyrian ruler
Ordered25 March 1806
Cost£35,473
Laid downApril 1807
Launched25 July 1808
Commissioned6 September 1808
FateBroken up 1844
General characteristics
Class and typeApollo
TypeFrigate
Tons burthen944
Beam38 ft 2 in
Draught14 ft 4 in
Depth of hold13 ft 3 in
Armament36 guns; later reduced to 24

HMS Semiramis was a fifth-rate Royal Navy frigate during the Age of Sail. She was built at Deptford Dockyard, launched on 25 July 1808, and eventually broken up in 1844.

Charles Richardson captained HMS Semiramis between 1810 and 1814, (1823) during which time the ship destroyed the French 16-gun brig Le Pluvier and captured the 14-gun French privateer vessel Grand Jean Bart.

Captain Sir James Yeo was transferred to command HMS Semiramis in October 1817; he would die aboard in 1818 while returning to England from Jamaica.

References

  1. ^ "HMS Semiramis". www.pdavis.nl. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  2. ^ "HMS Semiramis". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  3. ^ Winfield, Rif (2005). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (2nd ed.). Seaforth (published 2008). p. 157. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
  4. "Richardson, Charles" . Royal Naval Biography. Vol. 52.18.3. 1823–1835. pp. 902–910.
  5. "Richardson, Charles" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 19.4. 1849. pp. 974–975.
  6. Laughton, John Knox (1900). "Yeo, James Lucas" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. pp. 319–320.
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