Artois-class frigate
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The Artois class were a series of nine frigates built to a 1793 design by Sir John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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Design of the class | |
Class overview | |
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Name | Artois class |
Operators | |
Preceded by | Pallas class |
Succeeded by | Alcmene class |
Completed | 9 |
Lost | 5 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Frigate |
Tons burthen | 983 70⁄94 bm (as designed) |
Length |
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Beam | 39 ft 0 in (11.9 m) |
Depth of hold | 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 270 (altered later to 315) |
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Seven of these ships were built by contract with commercial builders, while the remaining pair (Tamar and Clyde) were dockyard-built – the latter built using "fir" (pitch pine) instead of the normal oak.
They were armed with a main battery of 28 eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate. Besides this battery, they also carried two 9-pounders together with twelve 32-pounder carronades on the quarterdeck, and another two 9-pounders together with two 32-pounder carronades on the forecastle.