HMS Anacreon (1813)

Anacreon
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Anacreon
NamesakeAnacreon
Ordered12 July 1805
Builder
  • Initially: Owen, Ringmore, South Devon
  • Later:After Owen went bankrupt, master shipwright Joseph Tucker at Plymouth Dockyard completed the construction
Laid down
  • Initially:July 1809
  • Later:August 1810 After Owen's bankruptcy, what was on the stocks was taken apart and moved to Plymouth Dockyard, where work resumed
Launched1 May 1813
FateFoundered without a trace in 1814
General characteristics
Class & typeRevived Cormorant-class sloop
Tons burthen42713⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • Overall:108 ft 9 in (33.1 m)
  • Keel:91 ft 1+3⁄8 in (27.8 m)
Beam29 ft 8+1⁄4 in (9.0 m)
Depth of hold9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Complement121 (Royal Navy)
Armament
  • Upper deck:16 × 32-pounder carronades
  • QD:6 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Fc:2 × 6-pounder chase guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Anacreon had an extremely brief career. She was commissioned in early 1813 and was lost within a year.

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