HMS Ulysses (1779)

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Ulysses
Ordered:	16 April 1777
Builder:	John Fisher, Liverpool
Laid down:	28 June 1777
Launched:	14 July 1779
Completed:	Fit-out at builder by 9 October 1779 Guns and crew at Plymouth Dockyard by 2 January 1780
Commissioned:	May 1779
In service:	1780–1783 1790, 1791 1793–1794 1795–1802 1802–1804 1807–1815
Fate:	Sold at Sheerness Dockyard, 1815
General characteristics
Class and type:	44-gun Roebuck-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:	887 ⁸⁄₉₄ bm
Length:	140 ft 0 in (42.7 m) (gundeck) 115 ft 3 in (35.1 m) (keel)
Beam:	38 ft 0 in (11.6 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 4.75 in (5.00 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	280 (320 from 1783)
Armament:	44 guns comprising: Upper deck: 22 × 9-pounder guns Lower deck: 20 × 18-pounder guns Forecastle: 2 x 6-pounder guns

HMS Ulysses was a 48-gun Roebuck-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. Commissioned in 1779, her principal active service was in the Caribbean, interspersed with periods as a troopship and storeship. She was decommissioned and sold at Sheerness Dockyard in 1815.