HMS Ulysses (1779)
![]() Distressed Situation of Ulysses - when dismasted in the Hurricane of 1 August 1781, and narrowly escaping being wrecked on the south side of Jamaica
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Name | HMS Ulysses |
Ordered | 16 April 1777 |
Builder | John Fisher, Liverpool |
Laid down | 28 June 1777 |
Launched | 14 July 1779 |
Completed |
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Commissioned | May 1779 |
In service |
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Fate | Sold at Sheerness Dockyard, 1815 |
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Class and type | 44-gun Roebuck-class fifth-rate frigate |
Tons burthen | 887 8⁄94 bm |
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Beam | 38 ft 0 in (11.6 m) |
Depth of hold | 16 ft 4.75 in (5.00 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 280 (320 from 1783) |
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HMS Ulysses was a 48-gun Roebuck-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. Commissioned in 1779, her principal active service was in the Caribbean, interspersed with periods as a troopship and storeship. She was decommissioned and sold at Sheerness Dockyard in 1815.[1]
Career[]
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Pomona and Ulysses when dismasted in the Great Hurricane on 6 October 1780 in the Mona Passage
On 2 June 1781, Ulysses encountered the 32-gun , under Captain de Boubée. The ships broke contact after a brief battle.[2]
On 5 June, Ulysses chased the 32-gun Surveillante, under Jean-Marie de Villeneuve Cillart, off Saint-Domingue. Around 2130, Ulysses caught up with Surveillante, and a 2-hour and a half-battle ensued, after which the frigates broke contact.[3]
Notes, citations, and references[]
Notes
Citations
- ^ Winfield 2007, pp. 176–178
- ^ Troude (1867), p. 118.
- ^ Troude (1867), p. 119.
Bibliography
- Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France (in French). 2. Challamel ainé.
- Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.
Categories:
- 1779 ships
- Frigates of the Royal Navy