HMS Tees (1817)

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

Tees
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Tees
BuilderWilliam Taylor, Bideford
Laid downOctober 1813
Launched17 May 1817
CommissionedSeptember 1818
Decommissioned1827
FateSank in 1872
General characteristics
Class and type28-gun sixth-rate Conway-class post ship
Tons burthen450 bm
Length
  • 108 ft 6 in (33.1 m) (gundeck)
  • 90 ft 1.25 in (27.5 m) (keel)
Beam30 ft 8 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold9 ft (2.74 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement155
Armament
  • 28 guns:
  • UD: 18 × 32-pdrs carronades
  • QD: 6 × 12-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 12-pounder carronades
  • and 2 × 6-pdr chase guns

HMS Tees was a Conway-class 28-gun sixth rate post ship, launched in Bideford in 1817. She was used as the "Mariners' Church" permanently moored in St Georges Dock, Liverpool, from 1827 until she sank on 6 June 1872.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Local and General". Leeds Mercury. No. 10660. Leeds. 10 June 1872.

Bibliography

  • Rif Winfield. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
  • Liverpool: Churches, in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 43–52. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp43-52.


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