HMS Calliope (1837)

Upperdeck: 20 x 32-pdr gunnades
Quarterdeck: 6 x 32-pdr gunnades
Foc'l'se: 2 x 32-pdr gunnades

	Calliope at Garden Reach, Calcutta in 1841, by Lieutenant Francis Meynell R.N.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Calliope
Ordered	29 October 1830
Builder	Sheerness Dockyard
Cost	£17,882 including fitting
Laid down	January 1831
Launched	5 October 1837
Commissioned	10 October 1837
Fate	Broken up at Plymouth in November 1883
General characteristics
Class and type	Andromache-class sixth-rate frigate (later "corvette")
Tons burthen	720 34/94 bm
Length	130 ft 2 in (39.7 m) (gundeck); 109 ft 3 in (33.3 m) (keel);
Beam	35 ft 5.5 in (10.8 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 7 in (3.2 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	175
Armament	Upperdeck: 20 x 32-pdr gunnades; Quarterdeck: 6 x 32-pdr gunnades; Foc'l'se: 2 x 32-pdr gunnades;

HMS Calliope was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in October 1837 and broken up in November 1883.

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