Laurel class post ship

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Operators Royal Navy Type Sixth-rate post ship		Completed 6
Name Laurel-class post ships Tons burthen 526 ⁄94 (bm; as designed) Length 118 ft (36 m) (gundeck)98 ft 7 ⁄4 in (30.055 m) (keel)

The Laurel-class sailing sixth rates were a series of six post ships built to an 1805 design by Sir John Henslow. The first three were launched in 1806, two more in 1807, and the last in 1812. The vessels of the class served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War.

Ships in class

HMS Boreas

HMS Laurel

Builder: Nicholas Bools & William Good, Bridport, Dorset

Ordered: 30 January 1805

Laid down: June 1805

Launched: 2 June 1806

Completed: 16 November 1806 at Plymouth Dockyard

Fate: Captured by the French on 12 September 1808. The French named her Esperance. Unicorn recaptured her on 12 April 1810 off the Île de Ré. She was armed en flute and was carrying a cargo of colonial produce from Île de France while under the command of a lieutenant de vaisseau. The Royal Navy took her back into service as HMS Laurestinus. She wrecked in the Bahamas in August 1813.

HMS Comus

HMS Garland

HMS Perseus

HMS Volage

References

Laurel-class post ship Wikipedia

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