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"[1]
Fate:	Sold to be broken up, 9 August 1815
General characteristics
Class and type:	Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:	596 ^57⁄94 (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 x  18-pounder carronades Fc: 2 x  18-pounder carronades

HMS Thisbe was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Thisbe was first commissioned in December 1787 under the command of Captain George Robertson.

Thisbe on fire on 4 January 1786, caused by a lightning strike.
Nicholas Matthew Condy

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.^{[Note 1]}

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

1. 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

1. The London Gazette: no. 21077. pp. 791–792. 15 March 1850.
2. The London Gazette: no. 17915. p. 633. 3 April 1823.

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.