:HMS Melampus (1820)
{{Short description|Fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy}}
{{Other ships|HMS Melampus}}
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{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Leda (1800); Venus (1820); Diana (1822); Latona (1821); Melampus (1820); Hebe (1826); Minerva (1820) RMG J4077.jpg |Ship caption=Plan showing the midship section for Melampus }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name= Melampus |Ship namesake=Melampus |Ship ordered=1 May 1815 |Ship builder= Pembroke Dockyard |Ship laid down=August 1817 |Ship launched= 18 August 1820 |Ship commissioned=12 March 1845 |Ship completed=18 May 1845 |Ship reclassified= |Ship motto= |Ship honours= |Ship fate=Sold for scrap, 3 April 1906 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class=Modified {{sclass|Leda|frigate}} |Ship tons burthen=1088 56/94 bm |Ship length=*{{convert|151|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on|1}} (gundeck)
|Ship beam={{convert|40|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship draught={{convert|14|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship depth={{convert|12|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship |Ship endurance= |Ship complement=315 |Ship armament=*46 guns:
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HMS Melampus was a 46-gun modified {{sclass|Leda|frigate|0}} fifth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. Completed in 1820, she was not commissioned until 1845 for the South America Station and was converted into a store and receiving ship in 1855. The ship was briefly assigned as a coast guard ship before being paid off in 1858. Melampus was converted into a Roman Catholic chapel ship in 1866 and then became a store ship twenty years later. The ship was sold for scrap in 1906.
Description
Melampus had a length at the gundeck of {{convert|151|ft|10|in|m|1}} and {{convert|127|ft|1|in|m|1}} at the keel. She had a beam of {{convert|40|ft|6|in|m|1}}, a draught of {{convert|14|ft|7|in|m|1}} and a depth of hold of {{convert|12|ft|9|in|m|1}}. The ship's tonnage was 1088 {{fraction|56|94}} tons burthen.Winfield, pp. 586–87 The modified Leda-class frigates were armed with twenty-eight 18-pounder cannon on her gundeck, fourteen 32-pounder carronades on her quarterdeck and a pair of 9-pounder cannon and two more 32-pounder carronades in forecastle. The ship had a crew of 315 officers and ratings.Winfield & Lyon, pp. 107–08
Construction and career
Melampus, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,Colledge, pp. 221–22 was ordered on 1 May 1816, laid down in August 1817 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 10 August 1820. She was completed for ordinary at Plymouth Dockyard 2–23 September 1829 and was roofed over from the mainmast forward. The ship cost £23,007 to build and £7,072 to fit out for ordinary. She was fitted out for sea at a total cost of £9,156 from March to 18 May 1845.
Melampus{{'}}s first commission began on 12 March with Captain John Campbell in command and she was ready for sea on 18 May.
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References
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Lawrie; Lieutenant Commander|title=Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History|date=2014|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK|isbn=978-0-7509-5214-9}}
- {{cite book|last1=Winfield|first1=Rif|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1817-1863|date=2014|publisher=Seaforth|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-47383-743-0|format=epub|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPZDBgAAQBAJ}}
- {{winfield}}
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