Name HMS Active Class and type Pique-class frigate Armament 36 guns | Fate Sold, 1908 Tons burthen 1,627 tons bm Launched 19 July 1845 | |
Renamed HMS Tyne, July 1867
HMS Durham, November 1867 | ||
HMS Active was a 36-gun Pique-class fifth rate frigate launched in 1845, becoming a training ship in 1863 and being renamed HMS Tyne and then HMS Durham in 1867. She was captained by Captain Byles in 1879, when members of the crew appeared on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in the play Jack Crawford by James Roland MacLaren. She was sold in 1908.
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