Name Forth Builder Pembroke Dockyard Construction started November 1828 Draft 4.47 m | Ordered 9 June 1825 Laid down November 1828 Launched 1 August 1833 | |
Fate Sold for scrap, 4 August 1883 Class and type Seringapatam-class frigate | ||
HMS Forth was a 44-gun Seringapatam-class fifth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s, one of three ships of the Andromeda sub-class. After completion in 1833, she was ordered to be converted into a steam-powered ship in 1845, but this did not happen for another decade.
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Description
The Andromeda sub-class was a slightly enlarged and improved version of the Druid sub-class, with a more powerful armament. Forth had a length at the gundeck of 159 feet (48.5 m) and 133 feet (40.5 m) at the keel. She had a beam of 42 feet 2 inches (12.9 m), a draught of 14 feet 8 inches (4.5 m) and a depth of hold of 13 feet 3 inches (4.0 m). The ship's tonnage was 1228 46⁄94 tons burthen. The Andromeda sub-class was armed with twenty-six 18-pounder cannon on her gundeck, ten 32-pounder carronades and a pair of 68-pounder guns on her quarterdeck and four more 32-pounder carronades in the forecastle. The ships had a crew of 315 officers and ratings.
Construction and career
Forth, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy, was ordered on 9 June 1825, laid down in November 1828 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 1 August 1830. She was completed for ordinary at Plymouth Dockyard on 2 September 1833.