![]() Coventry was built to the same design as HMS Carysfort, (pictured)
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Name | HMS Coventry |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Ordered | 13 April 1756 |
Awarded | 28 April 1756 |
Builder | Henry Adams's yard, Bucklers Hard |
Laid down | 31 May 1756 |
Launched | 30 May 1757 |
Completed | 31 July 1757 at Portsmouth Dockyard |
Commissioned | May 1757 |
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Captured | 12 January 1783 off Ganjam, Bay of Bengal |
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Name | Coventry |
Acquired | January 1783 by capture |
Decommissioned | January 1785 at Brest |
In service | 1783–1785 |
Fate | Broken up, 1786 |
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Class and type | Coventry-class frigate |
Displacement | 850 tons (French) |
Tons burthen | 599 25⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 34 ft 0+7⁄8 in (10.385 m) |
Depth of hold | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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Armament |
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HMS Coventry was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1757 and in active service as a privateer hunter during the Seven Years' War, and as part of the British fleet in India during the Anglo-French War. After seventeen years' in British service she was captured by the French in 1783, off Ganjam in the Bay of Bengal. Thereafter she spent two years as part of the French Navy until January 1785 when she was removed from service at the port of Brest. She was broken up in 1786.