HMS Dolphin (1781)
Plan of HMS Dolphin | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Dolphin |
| Ordered | 8 January 1777 |
| Cost | £21,525.10.5d including fitting and coppering |
| Launched | 10 March 1781 |
| Completed | 11 May 1781 |
| Commissioned | March 1781 |
| Fate | Broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | fifth-rate Roebuck-Class |
| Tons burthen | 880 47⁄94 (bm) |
| Length |
|
| Beam | 37 feet 10+1⁄4 inches (11.5 m) |
| Depth of hold | 16 feet 4 inches (5.0 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Fully Rigged Ship |
| Complement | 280-300 |
| Armament |
|
.jpg){kind=link}
HMS Dolphin was a 44-gun fifth rate ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1781. Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she carried her armament on two decks and had a main battery of 18-pound long guns. She made an appearance at the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1781. The rest of her 36-year career was uneventful, much of it being spent as a transport or hospital ship, armed only with twenty or twenty-four, 9-pounders. She was broken up at Portsmouth in 1817.