Cyrus class post ship

Cyrus class post ship
Class overview
Name: Cyrus-class post ships
Operators:  Royal Navy
Completed: 16
General characteristics
Type: Sixth-rate post ship
Tons burthen: 454 80/94 (as designed)
Length: 115 ft 6 in (35.20 m) (gundeck)
97 ft 2 in (29.62 m) (keel)
Beam: 29 ft 8 in (9.04 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 135.
Armament: UD: 20 × 32-pounder carronades and 2 × 6-pounder guns

The Cyrus-class sailing sixth rates of the Royal Navy were a series of sixteen post ships built to an 1812 design by Sir William Rule. The first nine ships of the class were launched in 1813 and the remaining seven in 1814. The vessels of the class served at the end of the Napoleonic War.

Ships in class

  • Bucklers Hard
  • Ordered: 18 November 1812
  • Laid down: January 1813
  • Launched: 13 August 1813
  • Completed: 20 December 1813 at Portsmouth Dockyard
  • Fate: Sold to be broken up at Rotherhithe in 1832.
  • edit] References
    • Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817, Chatham Publishing, London 2005.


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