- History
- References
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Great Britain | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Actaeon | Ship ordered=5 November 1771 | Ship builder=Woolwich Dockyard | Ship laid down=October 1772 | Ship launched=18 April 1775 | Ship acquired= | Ship completed=August 1775 | Ship commissioned=19 June 1775 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship reclassified= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Lost in action off Fort Sullivan, South Carolina, 29 June 1776 | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate | {{fraction>89|94}} (bm) | 120|ft|6.5|in|m|abbr=on}} (overall)- {{convert|99|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} (keel)
| 33|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 11|ft|0.25|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship | Ship complement=200 officers and men | Ship armament=*28 guns comprising- Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns
- Quarter deck: 4 × 6-pounder guns
- Forecastle: nil
- 12 × swivel guns
| Ship notes=
}} | HMS Actaeon was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. HistoryThe Actaeon was first commissioned in June 1775 under the command of Captain Christopher Atkins. In August 1775, she was driven ashore at Lymington, Hampshire.[1] She was refloated on 31 August and taken in to Portsmouth, Hampshire for repairs.[2] References 1. ^{{cite journal |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044105232797;view=1up;seq=430 |title=(untitled) |journal=New Lloyd's List |issue=672 |date=1 September 1775 }}
2. ^{{cite journal |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044105232797;view=1up;seq=434 |title=(untitled) |journal=New Lloyd's List |issue=673 |date=5 September 1775 }}
- Sources
- Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. {{ISBN|0-85177-601-9}}.
- David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. {{ISBN|0-85177-617-5}}.
- Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. {{ISBN|978-1-84415-700-6}}.
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