HMS Tees (1817)
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Name | HMS Tees |
Builder | William Taylor, Bideford |
Laid down | October 1813 |
Launched | 17 May 1817 |
Commissioned | September 1818 |
Decommissioned | 1827 |
Fate | Sank in 1872 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 28-gun sixth-rate Conway-class post ship |
Tons burthen | 450.7 long tons (458 t) |
Length |
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Beam | 30 ft 8 in (9.3 m) |
Depth of hold | 9 ft (2.74 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 155 |
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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[]
- ^ "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
Categories:
- Conway-class post ships
- 1817 ships
- Ships built in Devon
- Maritime incidents in June 1872
- United Kingdom naval ship stubs