HMS Quebec (1781) - 32-gun frigate of the 5th rank of the Royal Navy . The third British ship named after the city of Quebec .
| HMS Quebec | |
|---|---|
| HMS Quebec | |
| Service | |
 Great Britain | |
| Class and type of vessel | rank 5 frigate like niger |
| Type of sailing weapon | three mast ship |
| Organization |  Royal fleet |
| Manufacturer | Parsons , Bearsldon |
| The author of the ship drawing | Edward hunt |
| Construction started | June 1780 |
| Launched | May 24, 1781 |
| End of service | July 1816 |
| Status | sold out |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 699 86/94 tons ( approx. ) [1] |
| Upper Deck Length | 126 ft 3 in (38.48 m ) [1] |
| Midship Width | 35 ft 6½ in (10.83 m) [1] |
| Draft | 8 ft 4 in / 13 ft 6 in |
| Depth of intrum | 12 ft 1½ in (3.69 m) [1] |
| Engines | Sail |
| Crew | 250 |
| Armament | |
| Total number of guns | 32 |
| Guns on the operdek | 26 × 12 pound guns [1] |
| Guns on the Trench | 4 × 6-fn guns + 4 × 24-fn carronades |
| Guns on the tank | 2 × 6-fn guns + 2 × 24-fn carronades |
Content
Build
Hunt's eight 32-gun frigates were supposed to replace Amazon Williams-class ships, which even resembled, with the exception of a slightly greater deadlift in the midship. In practice, however, the new project proved to be mediocre, and therefore orders of the previous type continued. The first order for an Active type frigate was concluded in June 1778 with Fisher’s private shipyard at a cost of £ 11.15 per ton of displacement.
The last of all Quebec was ordered on September 15, 1779 . Laid down in June 1780 . Launched on May 24, 1781 at the George Parsons private shipyard in Bersldon, on the Hamble River. It was completed and lined with copper on August 8, 1781 at the royal shipyard in Portsmouth . [one]
Service
American Revolutionary War
1781 - entered service in May, Captain Christopher Mason, Channel Fleet ; September 3, went to North America .
1782 - February 22 took the Betsy schooner ; [2] On April 21, he took a Sally brig with a load of flour; On April 26, the American Hope privatier took with a load of oil, textile, salt and wine; [3] August 27 took the American privatir Warrior ; December 21, at the mouth of the Delaware Bay , together with HMS Diomede and HMS Astraea, took the 40-gun South Carolina (formerly L'Indien ); [1] The prize money for it was issued in 1784 . [four]
1783 - withdrawn to the reserve and calculated.
1790 - September, equipment in Portsmouth (until March 1791 ); returned to service in October in connection with the incident in Nootka Sound , captain John Rodney ( born John Rodney ).
French Revolutionary Wars
1793 - April-June, equipment at Deptford ; returned to duty in June, Captain Josiah Rogers ( born Josias Rogers , d. in April 1795 ); November 26 went to the Leeward Islands .
1794 - with the fleet of Vice Admiral Jervis , West Indies ; [1] On April 10 , together with HMS Ceres , HMS Rose and the sloop , took French fortifications on the islands of All Saints. [five]
1795 - April, Captain John Carpenter.
1796 - March 10 in the Canal took the corsair L'Aspic ; December 3 from San Domingo took 18-gun L'Africaine . [1] In the second half of the year, Captain Quebec Rogers excelled in repelling attacks on Dominica , Grenada and St. Vincent . [6]
1797 - Captain John Cooke On April 20, Quebec boats and other expedition ships ( Hermione , Mermaid , Drake , Penelope [7] ) took and removed from Jean-Rabel (San Domingo) the frigate Hermione (according to other sources, 1 ship, 3 brig, 3 schooners and 2 sloops [7] ); November, put in reserve and calculated.
1798 - returned to service in April, captain Sir William Fairfax ( born Wm George Fairfax ); November, equipment at Portsmouth (until May 1799 .
1799 - returned to service in January, captain Henry Bayntun ( born Henry Bayntun ); April, went to Jamaica .
1801 - March, Captain Robert Mends; June, Captain Charles Grant. [one]
Napoleonic Wars
1803 - October, Woolwich , prepared for the transfer of Trinity House .
1805 - March-July, repair at the Perry private shipyard, Blackwall; July-October, rearmament (9-fn guns instead of 6-fn guns on the socks and tank) in Woolwich; returned to service in August, Captain George Dundas ( born GL Dundas ), Woolwich.
1806 - February, Captain George M'Kinley , May Captain Viscount Falkland ( 9th Viscount Falkland, Charles John Cary ).
1807 - Captain Lord Falkland, Sheerness ; September 4 was at the surrender of Helgoland ; Captain George Poulett, Downs .
1800 - April 30 went to Newfoundland .
1810 - Captain Charles Hotain ( Eng. Charles Sibthorp Hawtayne ), North Sea ; March 16, took a 10-gun privatir; On May 29, Quebec boats (“and others”) off the island of Flistrom destroyed the 6-gun privatir and took two more. [one]
In two years, Quebec captured a number of armed vessels in the North Sea. The French corsair Luger Impératrice (14) was taken after 24 hours of pursuit, and on the night of November 8, 1810, another corsair, the beautiful French schooner Jeune Louise , was removed from Flistrom's parking lot. Quebec first discovered the schooner, passing Flea and Schelling, returning to the position behind Texel ; the frigate led to the wind and three boats under the command of lieutenants Stephen Popham and Richard Augustus Yates , as well as naval assistant MacDonald, headed towards the shore, raking against a very strong low tide . They discovered the schooner on a sand bank, in full readiness to meet them with guns and rifles. Three volleys from a pistol shot did not save her from boarding and battle on the deck. The French captain, Gallen Lafont ( Fr. Gallen Lafont ), was killed in a duel with Lieutenant Yates, another French sailor was killed, and another wounded. The schooner was armed with six 12-pound and eight 9-pound carronades and had sixty crew on board, the rest were sick or switched to prizes. English casualties: John Thompson, sailor, killed; Thomas Jones, sailor, drowned; Christopher Gilbertson ( English Christopher Gilbertson ), sailor, wounded; one boat is destroyed. [eight]
December 2, together with HMS Kite took the 6-gun corsair Renard . [one]
1811 - in August, boats of Admiral Young's squadron ( Quebec , HMS Raven , HMS Redbreast , HMS Exertion , HMS Alert and HMS Princess Augusta ) at about. Helgoland, under the command of Quebec First Lieutenant Samuel Blyth , captured and led away from nearby Norderney , from the ridge of the Frisian Islands , the French armed customs boat Christine Charlotte and a merchant ship.
On August 3, 4 gunboats were anchored outside the island and an attack was launched. The enemy’s guns were loaded with buckshot and grenades and were discharged only when the boats came up for a pistol shot, but they succeeded in boarding the first gunboat, and then in turn all the others. Other Quebec officers who participated in the raid include Lieutenant Charles Wollridge, naval assistant Robert Cook, midshipman John M'Donald, and marine lieutenant Humphrey Moore . Humphry Moore ), which was later severely burned. Lieutenant Blythe was immediately promoted to commander .
Gunboats were armed with a long 12-pound and two 6- or 8-pound guns each (Dutch metal is heavier than English), and carried 102 people. The English casualties were 4 killed and 14 wounded, of which Quebec casualties: George Bagley, sailor, killed; George Hewport, John Fuller, Benjamin Hawkins, and Thomas Thompson, sailors, and John Sparks, marine are injured.
On October 30th, in the Flemish can area, Quebec chased after and captured a large French corsair, the cutter Olympia . 24 hours before that, he went on a six-week cruise, armed with ten 18-pound guns and a team of 78 people. [eight]
1812 - declared unfit for service at sea, removed to the reserve and designed for the Shirness; returned to duty in December, Lieutenant Thomas Leigh .
1813 - January, converted into a floating barracks in Plymouth .
1814 - was used as a garbage barge (according to other sources, a firewall ) in Nora .
1816 - July, disassembled at Shirness.
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Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Winfield, ... p. 217.
- ↑ London Gazette : no. 12290. p. 3.23 April 1782.
- ↑ London Gazette : no. 12306. p. 5 June 18, 1782.
- ↑ London Gazette : no. 12556. p. 5-6. June 29, 1784.
- ↑ Clowes, ... IV, p. 249.
- ↑ Clowes, ... IV, p. 280.
- ↑ 1 2 Clowes, ... IV, p. 334−335.
- ↑ 1 2 Ships of the Old Navy: QUEBEC (32) [1781]
Literature
- Clowes, William Laird, et al. The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to the present , Vol. IV. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 1898−1899.
- Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . London-St.Paul: Seaforth, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6