HMS Tees (1817)

HMS Tees was a Conway-class 28-gun sixth rate post ship, launched in Bideford in 1817. She was used as the "Mariners' Church" permanently moored in St Georges Dock, Liverpool, from 1827 until she sank in 1872.

Tees
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Tees
Builder: William Taylor, Bideford
Laid down: October 1813
Launched: 17 May 1817
Commissioned: September 1818
Fate: Sold in 1872
General characteristics
Class and type: 28-gun sixth-rate Conway-class post ship
Tons burthen: 450.7 long tons (458 t)
Length:
  • 108 ft 6 in (33.1 m) (gundeck)
  • 90 ft 1.25 in (27.5 m) (keel)
Beam: 30 ft 8 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold: 9 ft (2.74 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 155
Armament:
  • 28 guns:
  • UD: 18 × 32 pdrs carronades
  • QD: 6 x 12-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 x 12-pounder carronades
  • and 2 × 6 pdr chase guns

Sources
  • Rif Winfield. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
  • Liverpool: Churches, in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 43-52. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp43-52 [accessed 28 May 2020].


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