HMS Trusty (1782)

HMS Trusty was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.[1]

HMS Trusty by Antoine Roux
History
Great Britain
NameTrusty
BuilderSheerness Dockyard
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 burthen1,088 16⁄94
Length
  • 150 ft 5+1⁄2 in (45.860 m) (gundeck)
  • 17 ft 9+3⁄4 in (5.429 m) (keel)
Depth of hold17 ft 9+3⁄4 in (5.429 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • 50 guns:
  • Lower Gundeck: 22 x 24 pdrs
  • Upper Gundeck: 22 x 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 4 x 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 x 6 pdrs

Design
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 the 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.[2]

Service

The Trusty was launched on 9 October 1782. She was refitted and used as a troopship from July 1799, refitted again as a prison ship from April 1809, and broken up in April 1815.[1]

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.[3]

References
  1. "British Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Trusty' (1782)". threedecks.org. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  2. Winfield, Rif (1997). The 50-Gun Ship. London: Chatham Publishing. p. 61.
  3. "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
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