Lively-class frigate

HMS Hussar
Class overview
Operators Royal Navy
Completed16
General characteristics
TypeFifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen1,071 51/94 (as designed)
Length154 ft (47 m)
Beam39 ft 5 in (12.01 m)
Depth13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
PropulsionSail
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement284 (later raised to 300, then in 1813 to 320).
Armament
  • As ordered :
  • UD: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 12 × 32-pounder carronades (later ships had 14 of these carronades and no 9-pounders)
  • FC: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

The Lively class were a class of sixteen 38-gun fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy.

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