HMS Despatch (1804)
Despatch | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Despatch or Dispatch |
| Ordered | 27 November 1802 |
| Builder | Richard Symons & Co., Falmouth |
| Laid down | April 1803 |
| Launched | 26 May 1804 |
| Fate | Broken up September 1811 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Cruizer class brig-sloop |
| Tons burthen | 382 42⁄94 (bm) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.3 m) |
| Depth of hold | 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) |
| Sail plan | Brig rigged |
| Complement | 121 |
| Armament | 16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder bow guns |
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HMS Dispatch (also Despatch) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Richard Symons & Co. at Falmouth and launched in 1804. Dispatch was instrumental in the capture of a 40-gun French frigate and was active at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. She also sailed on the Jamaica station. She was broken up relatively early, in 1811.