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HMS Trusty (1782)

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50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy

Plan showing the inboard profile proposed for Trusty, 19 August 1781.
History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
NameTrusty
BuilderJames Martin Hillhouse, Bristol
Launched9 October 1782
Reinstated
  • July 1799 refitted as a 28 gun unrated troopship
  • April 1809 refitted as an unrated prison ship
FateBroken up, April 1815
General characteristics
Tons burthen1,0881⁄16
Length
  • Gundeck: 150 ft 5+1⁄2 in (45.860 m)
  • Keel: 17 ft 9+3⁄4 in (5.429 m)
Depth of hold17 ft 9+3⁄4 in (5.429 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • Lower Gundeck: 22 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper Gundeck: 22 × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Trusty was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.

Design

Trusty's as built plan issued March 1782 - March 1784
HMS Trusty (top left) fitted as a troopship at the Raid on Boulogne

Designed by Edward Hunt and built at Sheerness Dockyard, the Trusty extended the design of Hunt's earlier ships by 2 ft (0.6 m). Like Cato, she featured the beakhead bulkhead, roundhouse with gallery, and solid bulwarks along the quarterdeck. The large roundhouse was surmounted by further solid bulwarks into which a fourth tier of gunports was cut for the carronades mounted on the poopdeck. The mizzen channels were moved up above the aftmost quarterdeck gunports.

Service

Trusty was launched on 9 October 1782.

Trusty was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands.

Trusty was refitted and used as a troopship from July 1799. Because she served in the Navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March – 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the "Egypt" clasp to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.

Trusty was refitted again as a prison ship from April 1809.

Fate

Trusty was broken up in April 1815.

References

  1. "Trusty (1782)". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  2. ^ "British Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Trusty' (1782)". threedecks.org. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  3. Winfield, Rif (1997). The 50-Gun Ship. London: Chatham Publishing. p. 61.
  4. "No. 15407". The London Gazette. 15 September 1801. p. 1145.
  5. "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
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