HMS Shannon (1803)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Shannon.
The third HMS Shannon was a 36-gun Perseverance-class frigate of the British Royal Navy built at Frindsbury on the River Medway on the Thames Estuary. She was completed on 3 September 1803 during the Napoleonic Wars. Her name was changed from Pallas to Shannon shortly before construction, traditionally an omen of bad luck for a ship. In her case, she was wrecked within three months of her being launched.
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Shannon on shore, by Edward Pelham Brenton, c.1803, in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich | |
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Name | HMS Shannon |
Ordered | 8 July 1801 |
Builder | Josiah and Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury, Kent |
Laid down | August 1801 |
Launched | 2 September 1803 |
Fate | Wrecked 10 December 1803 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | 36-gun Perseverance-class fifth-rate frigate |
Tons burthen | 88128⁄98 bm |
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Beam | 38 ft 2+3⁄4 in (11.7 m) |
Depth of hold | 13 ft 5+1⁄4 in (4.1 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Complement | 264 |
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