HMS Redbridge (1798)

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

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History
Great Britain
NameHMS Redbridge
BuilderHobbs & Hellyer, Redbridge
Laid down1796
Acquired1798 by purchase
FateCaptured 1803
France
NameRedbridge
LaunchedAugust 1803 by capture
Decommissioned1813
FateSold 1814
General characteristics
TypeExperimental design
Displacement150 tons (French)
Tons burthen148 (bm)
Length
  • 80 ft 0 in (24.4 m) (overall)
  • 56 ft 7+1⁄2 in (17.3 m) (keel)
Beam22 ft 2 in (6.8 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 6 in (3.5 m)
Sail planSchooner
Complement
  • British service: 50
  • French service: 107
Armament
  • British service: 12 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 12-pounder carronades
  • French service: 12 × 16-pounder guns (British 18-pounder?), or 14 × 22-pounder carronades (British 24-pounder?)

HMS Redbridge was one of four schooner-rigged gunboats built to an experimental design by Sir Samuel Bentham. Her launch date is unknown, but the Admiralty purchased her in April 1798. She had a short, relatively uneventful career before the French captured her in 1803. The French Navy sold her in January 1814.

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