HMS Trusty (1782)
{{Short description|50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = Trusty (1782).jpg | Ship caption = Plan showing the inboard profile proposed for Trusty, 19 August 1781.{{Cite web |title=Trusty (1782) |url=https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-81501 |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=Royal Museums Greenwich}} }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship in service = | Ship fate = Broken up, April 1815 | Ship captured = | Ship honours = | Ship reinstated = *July 1799 refitted as a 28 gun unrated troopship
| Ship struck = | Ship renamed = | Ship out of service = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship country = Great Britain | Ship commissioned = | Ship acquired = | Ship launched = 9 October 1782 | Ship laid down = | Ship builder = James Martin Hillhouse, Bristol | Ship ordered = | Ship name = Trusty | Ship flag = File:Naval Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = | Ship tons burthen = 1,088{{frac|{{small|16|94}}}} | Ship length = *Gundeck: {{convert|150|ft|5+1/2|in|m|abbr=on}}
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HMS Trusty was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.{{Cite web |title=British Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Trusty' (1782) |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=633 |access-date=2022-01-03 |website=threedecks.org}}
Design
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File:Plan and key. The Attack on Boulogne Oct 1804 RMG PZ6989 (cropped).jpg]]Designed by Edward Hunt and built at Sheerness Dockyard, the Trusty extended the design of Hunt's earlier ships by 2 ft (0.6 m). Like Cato, she featured the beakhead bulkhead, roundhouse with gallery, and solid bulwarks along the quarterdeck. The large roundhouse was surmounted by further solid bulwarks into which a fourth tier of gunports was cut for the carronades mounted on the poopdeck. The mizzen channels were moved up above the aftmost quarterdeck gunports.Winfield, Rif (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=gy9UAAAAMAAJ The 50-Gun Ship]. London: Chatham Publishing. p. 61.
Service
Trusty was launched on 9 October 1782.
Trusty was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands.{{London Gazette|date=15 September 1801|issue=15407|page=1145}}
Trusty was refitted and used as a troopship from July 1799. Because she served in the Navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March – 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the "Egypt" clasp to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.{{London Gazette| issue = 21077| date = 15 March 1850| pages = 791–792}}
Trusty was refitted again as a prison ship from April 1809.
Fate
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