HMS Resistance (1801)

Resistance's sister ship HMS Aigle
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Resistance
Ordered	28 January 1800
Builder	George Parsons, Bursledon
Laid down	March 1800
Launched	29 April 1801
Completed	21 June 1801
Commissioned	May 1801
Fate	Wrecked 31 May 1803
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Fifth-rate Aigle-class frigate
Tons burthen	9758⁄94 (bm)
Length	146 ft 1+1⁄4 in (44.5 m) (upper deck) 122 ft 1 in (37.2 m) (keel)
Beam	38 ft 9 in (11.8 m)
Draught	10 ft 5 in (3.2 m) (forward) 15 ft 7 in (4.7 m) (aft)
Depth of hold	13 ft 0+1⁄2 in (4 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	264
Armament	UD: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 4 × 9-pounder guns + 8 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Resistance was a 36-gun fifth-rate Aigle-class frigate of the Royal Navy, one of a pair designed by Sir John Henslow. Resistance was commissioned in May 1801 by Captain Henry Digby, and after brief service in the English Channel the frigate left for Quebec in charge of a convoy. While on voyage Resistance captured the French privateer Elizabeth, which was the last ship captured during the French Revolutionary War. Having returned to England at the end of the year, the frigate resumed service in the English Channel, with Captain Philip Wodehouse replacing Digby. On 31 May 1803 Resistance was sailing to the Mediterranean Sea when she was wrecked off Cape St. Vincent; the crew survived.