HMS Isis (1774)
HMS Isis was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth-rate of the Royal Navy. She saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
%3B_Renown_(1774)_RMG_J4062.jpg) Drawing showing the body plan with stern decoration and name on the counter, sheer lines with inboard profile and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for the Isis , 1774 | |
| History | |
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| Name: | HMS Isis |
| Ordered: | 25 December 1770 |
| Builder: | John Henniker & Co, Chatham |
| Laid down: | December 1772 |
| Launched: | 19 November 1774 |
| Completed: | February 1776 |
| Fate: | Broken up in September 1810 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 50-gun Portland-class fourth-rate |
| Tons burthen: | 1,050 (bm) |
| Length: | 146 ft (45 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 7.5 in (12.383 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 350 |
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She was built in 1774 on the River Medway and commissioned under Captain Charles Douglas in 1776, at which time he sailed with a squadron for the relief of Quebec. She was involved in the Nore mutiny and fought at the Battle of Cuddalore (1783) and Battle of Camperdown (1797). The ship was also engaged at the Action of 22 August 1795 off Norway against a Dutch squadron. She then served as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell during the 1799 Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. One of her early midshipmen was Robert Faulknor the younger. She fought in the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 under Captain James Walker and was badly damaged by a hurricane during the Peace of Amiens on crossing the Atlantic to be Vice Admiral Gambier's flagship in Newfoundland, before going on to further service in Newfoundland, the Caribbean and the North Sea. She was broken up in September 1810.
