Fourth Rate 50 gun ships of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Isis (1774)

HMS Isis was a John Williams designed Portland Class 50 gun fourth rate ship, built by Jonn Henniker and Co. at Chatham. Ordered on the 25th of December, 1770 and approved on the 30th of January, 1771, she was laid down in the December of 1772, and launched on the 19th of November, 1774.
She was completed in the February of 1776, at a total cost of £19,303.8.9d. Fitting out was a further £4,334.19.6d.



The Isis 1774

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Isis
Ordered:	25 December 1770
Builder:	John Henniker & Co, Chatham
Laid down:	December 1772
Launched:	19 November 1774
Completed:	February 1776
Fate:	Broken up in September 1810
General characteristics
Class and type:	Portland Class 50 gun fourth rate ship
Tons burthen:	1,050 66⁄94 (bm)
Length:	146 ft (45 m)
Beam:	40 ft 7 1⁄2in (12.383 m)
Depth of hold: Draught:	17 ft 6in (5.33 m) 10ft 1in x 15ft 1in
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	350
Armament:	Lower deck: 22 x 24 pdr guns Upper deck: 22 x 12pdr guns QD:4 x 6 pdr guns Fc:2 x 6 pdr guns

Service.

HMS Isis was commissioned under Captain Charles Douglas in 1776, at which time he sailed with a squadron for the relief of Quebec. After further service in the North sea, she underwent a small repair and coppering at Woolwich between the February and November of 1780. at a cost of £ 2964.19.9d.

The ship then sailed for the East Indies and on the 20th of June, 1783, under Captain Christopher Halliday, in the Squadron commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, Isis fought in the Van at the Battle of Cuddalore.

On her return to England in 1784 she was paid off in the July of that year following wartime service, and underwent a Great repair and refit at Woolwich costing £33,312 between the March of 1792 and May of 1795. Recommissioned under Captain Benjamin Archer for North Sea service in the July of that year, she was placed under the command of Captain Robert Watson before sailing, and on the 22nd of August Isis was engaged in the action off Norway against a Dutch squadron where along with others she was involved in the capture of the Dutch 36 gun Alliante.

On her return in 1797, she was involved in the Nore Mutiny, and then on the 11th of October of that year, under Captain William Mitchell, fought under Admiral Duncan in the Windward Division at the Battle of Camperdown. During the action Isis suffered 2 killed and 21 wounded.

From the August of 1799 she came under the command of Captain James Oughton, as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell during the Anglo- Russian invasion of Holland, and the seizure of the Dutch Fleet in the Nieuwe Diep on the 28th of August in that year. From October she came under Captain Richard Ratalic, and then Captain James Walker in the November of 1800. On the 2nd of April, 1801, under Captain Walker she fought in the Battle of Copenhagen and suffered 33 killed and 88 wounded.

In the August of 1801, Isis was placed under the command of Captain Masterman Hardy, and then Captain William Nowell.

During the Peace of Amiens which was signed in the March of 1802, Isis was fitted for Foreign Service at Chatham between the June and July of that year at a cost of £ 3,008. and under Captain Edward Brace, on the 29th of July in that year, she sailed for Newfoundland to become Vice Admiral Gambier’s flagship. During her crossing of the Atlantic she was badly damaged by a hurricane, requiring repairs, and then from the February of 1803 came under Captain William Lobb, before sailing for further service in Newfoundland until the May of 1803, still as Gambier’s Flagship. In the May of 1804 she came under the command of Captain John Ommaney as Flagship to Vice Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower in which she continued until 1806. In the June of that year she came under the command of Captain John Laugharne, as the Flagship of Vice Admiral John Holloway sailing back to Newfoundland on the 26th of January 1808 with a convoy of East Indiamen and arriving on the 19th of June.

In the January of 1809 Captain Donald M’Leod took command of Isis for service in the North Sea, which was taken over by Captain Alexander Kerr in the May, and in the following month Captain Woodley Losack.

Fate.

Isis was broken up at Deptford in the September of 1810.