HMS Tees (1817)

Tees
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Tees
BuilderWilliam Taylor, Bideford
Laid downOctober 1813
Launched17 May 1817
CommissionedSeptember 1818
Decommissioned1827
FateSank in 1872
General characteristics
Class and type28-gun sixth-rate Conway-class post ship
Tons burthen450 bm
Length
  • 108 ft 6 in (33.1 m) (gundeck)
  • 90 ft 1.25 in (27.5 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 8 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold9 ft (2.74 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement155
Armament
  • 28 guns:
  • UD: 18 × 32 pdrs carronades
  • QD: 6 x 12-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 x 12-pounder carronades
  • and 2 × 6 pdr chase guns

HMS Tees was a Conway-class 28-gun sixth rate post ship, launched in Bideford in 1817. She was used as the "Mariners' Church" permanently moored in St Georges Dock, Liverpool, from 1827 until she sank on 6 June 1872.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Local and General". Leeds Mercury. No. 10660. Leeds. 10 June 1872.

Bibliography

  • Rif Winfield. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
  • Liverpool: Churches, in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 43–52. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp43-52.

External links

  • Media related to HMS Tees (ship, 1817) at Wikimedia Commons
  • Logs of His Majesty's Ships Phaeton, Tees, and Conqueror, C0309, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries, http://scrc.gmu.edu/finding_aids/royalnavy.html
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