British Lively-Class Frigates-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

The class consisted of 16 Royal Navy 38-gun frigates built starting in 1799 to the design of Sir William Rule. They served in the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812, the most famous of them probably were the HMS Macedonian and Menelaus.

The prototype, the HMS Lively, was launched in 1804. By then, an additional four had been ordered to the same design and then eleven more to a similar design.

Even the United States Navy ordered one to the design of the captured HMS Macedonian in 1832 and launched in 1836 as the USS Macedonian. I'll write about this ship in my Civil War Navy Blog as it served during the war.

Up Next, A Short History of the Lively-Class Ships. --Brock-Perry