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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 |
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Class and type | Fifth-rate Aigle-class frigate |
Tons burthen | 9758⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 38 ft 9 in (11.8 m) |
Draught |
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Depth of hold | 13 ft 0+1⁄2 in (4 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Complement | 264 |
Armament |
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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.