HMS Isis (1774)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Isis.

HMS Isis was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. She saw service during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Drawing showing the body plan with stern decoration and name on the counter, sheer lines with inboard profile and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for the Isis , 1774
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Isis
Ordered	25 December 1770
Builder	John Henniker & Co, Chatham
Laid down	December 1772
Launched	19 November 1774
Completed	February 1776
Fate	Broken up in September 1810
General characteristics
Class and type	50-gun Portland-class fourth-rate
Tons burthen	1,050 (bm)
Length	146 ft (45 m)
Beam	40 ft 7.5 in (12.383 m)
Depth of hold	17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	350
Armament	Lower deck: 22 x 24-pounder guns Upper deck: 22 x 12-pounder guns QD:4 x 6-pounder guns Fc:2 x 6-pounder guns

She was built in 1774 on the River Medway and commissioned under Captain Charles Douglas in 1776, at which time he sailed with a squadron for the relief of Quebec.

She was involved in the Nore mutiny and fought at the Battle of Cuddalore (1783) and the Battle of Camperdown (1797). The ship was also engaged in the action of 22 August 1795, off Norway, against a Dutch squadron. She then served as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell during the 1799 Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. One of her early midshipmen was Robert Faulknor, the younger. She fought in the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 under Captain James Walker and was badly damaged by a hurricane during the Peace of Amiens on crossing the Atlantic to be Vice Admiral Gambier's flagship in Newfoundland, before going on to further service in Newfoundland, the Caribbean, and the North Sea. She was broken up in September 1810.

Isis at Copenhagen, 1801

External links

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