Six vessels of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
have borne the name HMS ''Pitt'':
* was an 8-gun cutter purchased in 1763 that foundered in the Atlantic in 1766, "coming from Africa".
[Hepper (1994), p.47.]
* was a 12-gun schooner purchased in 1805, renamed ''Sandwich '' in 1807, and broken up in 1809.
* was a 36-gun
''Perseverance''-class fifth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower.
Rating
The rating system in the Royal N ...
frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat.
The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
launched as HMS ''Pitt'' in 1805, but was renamed ''Salsette'' in 1807, and was broken up in 1874.
* was named ''Salsette'' before her acquisition by the Royal Navy, renamed ''Pitt'', and then ''Doris'' in 1807, and sold at Valparaiso in 1829.
* was a
74-gun
The "seventy-four" was a type of two- decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns. It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s, replacing earlier classes of 60- and 62-gun ships, as a larger complement to the recently-de ...
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...
launched in 1816, became a coal hulk in 1853, and was broken up in 1877.
*HMS Pitt was a screw 91-gun
second rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...
ordered in 1860 but cancelled in 1863.
* was a 106-gun
first rate
In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating in the Jacobean era
The Jacobean era was the period in English and Scot ...
launched in 1820, renamed ''Camperdown'' in 1825, on harbour service in 1854, coal hulk in 1857, renamed ''Pitt'' in 1882, and sold 1906.
See also
*HM
hired armed brig
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the ...
, which served between c.1808 and 1812.
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