HMS Cleopatra (1779)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Cleopatra.
HMS Cleopatra was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had a long career, seeing service during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the latter wars she fought two notable engagements with larger French opponents. In the first engagement she was forced to surrender, but succeeded in damaging the French ship so badly that she was captured several days later, while Cleopatra was retaken. In the second she forced the surrender of a 40-gun frigate. After serving under several notable commanders she was broken up towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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HMS Cleopatra, depicted in a print by Nicholas Pocock | |
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Name | HMS Cleopatra |
Ordered | 13 May 1778 |
Builder | James Martin Hillhouse, Bristol |
Laid down | 6 July 1778 |
Launched | 26 November 1779 |
Completed | By 9 September 1780 |
Fate | Broken up by 21 September 1814 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | 32-gun Amazon-class fifth rate frigate |
Tons burthen | 689 17/94 bm |
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Beam | 35 ft 2.5 in (10.7 m) |
Depth of hold | 12 ft 1.75 in (3.70 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 220 |
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