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The first HMS Surprise was a 24-gun sixth rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was built to the 1741 revised specifications of the 1719 Establishment by James Wyatt and John Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire and launched on 27 January 1745.
The designation sixth rate was used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 20 and 24 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.
Ships of this design and size were manned by 150 to 240 men and were of the displacement of 450 to 550 tons. Typically a 28-gun ship had some 19 officers. The officers would include the ship’s Captain and two lieutenants. The remaining officers would be warrant officers making up the ship’s Master, Surgeon and the Purser.
Two other Quarterdeck officers would include a Chaplain and a Royal Marines lieutenant. Included in the list of warrant officers were the gunner, the bosun and the carpenter, two master’s mates, four midshipmen, an assistant surgeon and the Captain’s clerk.
The makeup of the rest of the men or crew of the “lower deck” slept in hammocks ate simple meals at tables, sitting on wooden benches.
The typical sixth rate would carry some 23 marines referred to as a strong crew or a weaker crew. In the strong crew consisted of experienced seamen with rating of “able” or “ordinary”. Weaker crews would be made up of “landsmen” adults with little or no seamanship experience.
The slightly large of the sixth rates were those that carried 28 guns plus 4 smaller guns mounted on the quarterdeck were in the class of Frigates. For the smaller sixth rates or those with 20 to 24 guns and even some vessels with flush decks were sometimes known as “post ships”. Being rated meant they were large enough to have a post Captain in command instead of just a lieutenant or commander.
Later the sixth rate frigates were found to be too small for the duties expected of a fifth rate frigate and most were phased out. Very few lasted in use as auxiliary roles up until a little after 1815. These old sixth rate frigates picked up the nick-name “jackass frigates” because they were not considered big enough for frigate dities.
The British Royal Navy has thirteen ships named HMS Surprise or HMS Surprize, including:
- The first a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1746 and sold in 1770.
- The second was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1774 and sold in 1783.
- The third, an 18-gun sloop, formerly the American privateer Bunker Hill, captured in 1778 and sold in 1783.
- The forth HMS Surprise was a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1780 and sold in 1786.
- The fifth HMS Surprize was a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1786 and sold in 1792.
- The sixth HMS Surprise, originally the French corvette Unité (1794), captured in 1796 by HMS Inconstant and reclassified as a sixth-rate frigate. She was sold in 1802.
- The seventh was a 10-gun schooner, previously the French merchantman Surprise. She was captured in 1799 by HMS Brave and sold in 1800.
- The eighth, a 38-gun frigate, previously named Jacobs and launched in 1812. She was hulked as a prison ship in 1822 and sold in 1837.
- The ninth was a small 2-gun schooner on the Canadian Lakes. She was formerly the American Tigress, captured in 1814 and listed in service until 1832.
- The tenth, a wooden Vigilant-class screw gun-vessel, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1866.
- The eleventh HMS Surprise was a dispatch vessel launched in 1885. She was renamed HMS Alacrity in 1913 and was sold in 1919.
- The twelfth HMS Surprise was a Yarrow Later M class destroyer launched in 1916 and sunk in 1917.
- And the thirteenth HMS Surprise (K346), was a Bay class frigate. She had been laid down as HMS Loch Carron but was renamed HMS Gerrans Bay in 1944 before being launched in 1945. She was renamed HMS Surprise and used as a dispatch vessel later that year, and was broken up in 1965.
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