Name HMS Briseis Beam 24 ft 7 in (7.49 m) Launched 19 May 1808 Draft 3.35 m | Tons burthen 239 bm Draught 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) Length 28 m Builder Upnor | |
Fate Wrecked 5 November 1816 Class and type Cherokee-class brig-sloop | ||
HMS Briseis was a 10-gun Cherokee-class Royal Navy brig launched in 1808 at Upnor, on the River Medway.
James Clark Ross joined the Navy in April 1812 and served in this ship under the command of his uncle, John Ross.
She was wrecked off Cuba on 5 November 1816.
In fiction
Briseis appears as part of Jack Aubrey's squadron in Patrick O'Brian's The Hundred Days, where she is described as "the little Briseis, one of that numerous class called coffin-brigs" (however, the real Briseis did not serve in the Mediterranean, where the novel's action is set).
References
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