HMS Hotspur (1828)

HMS Hotspur was a modified Seringapatam-class 46-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 9 October 1828. She was laid up incomplete at Plymouth in April 1829. In 1859 she was recorded as being a chapel hulk based at HMNB Devonport - possibly moored at Hamoaze. She was recorded again in 1865, at the same location, as a Roman Catholic chapel hulk.[1] She was renamed HMS Monmouth in 1868, and sold in 1902, after the Roman Catholic Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer was opened in Keyham.[2]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Hotspur.

Hotspur
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Hotspur
Ordered:	15 May 1821
Builder:	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down:	July 1825
Launched:	9 October 1828
Renamed:	Monmouth in 1868
Fate:	Sold in 1902
General characteristics
Class and type:	Modified Seringapatam-class frigate
Tons burthen:	1,162 38/94 bm
Length:	159 ft (48 m) (gundeck) 133 ft 8 in (40.74 m) (keel)
Beam:	40 ft 5 in (12.32 m)
Depth of hold:	12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	315
Armament:	Upper deck: 28 x 18-pounders Quarterdeck: 14 x 32pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 x 9pdrs + 2 x 32pdr carronades

References

1. Warlow, Ben, Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy, Maritime Books, Liskeard, ISBN 0-907771-73-4.
2. "NMM, vessel ID 368732" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol i. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2012.

• Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004) The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889. Chatham Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-86176-032-9.