Fourth Rate 50 gun ships of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Grampus (1802)

HMS Grampus, originally named HMSTiger, was a Sir John Henslow designed Diomede Class 50 gun fourth rate ship, built by M/shipwright George White until the March of 1793, then Edward Tippett until the October of 1799, and completed by Thomas Pollard at Portsmouth Dockyard. Ordered on the 9th of December, 1790, she was laid down in the October of 1792, and launched on the 20th of March, 1802. She was completed on the 11th of April, 1803.


HMS Grampus

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Grampus
Ordered:	9 December 1790
Builder:	White, Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down:	October 1792
Launched:	20 March 1802
Commissioned:	March 1803
Renamed:	Built as Tiger Renamed Grampus on 4 March 1802
Fate:	Sold in late 1832
General characteristics
Class and type:	Diomede Class 50 gun fourth rate ship
Tons burthen:	1,114 ​31⁄94 (bm)
Length:	151 ft (46.0 m) (gundeck) 124 ft 7 1⁄2 in (38.0 m) (keel)
Beam:	41 ft 0 in (12 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft 8 in (5.4 m)
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Lower gundeck: 22 × 24pdr guns Upper gundeck: 22 × 12pdr guns QD: 4 × 6 pdr guns Fc: 2 × 6pdr guns

Service.

HMS Grampus was commissioned by Captain Hugh Downman in the March of 1803, but in the following month command passed to Captain Thomas Gordon Caulfield, and she was ordered to the Downs on the 7th of May. As soon as her complement of men was completed and her bounty paid, she sailed for the East Indies to join Admiral Edward Thornbrough’s squadron off Goree.
On the 19th of May Jalouse captured Jong Jan Pieter.^] Jalouse shared the prize money with Grampus and the Gun Brigs Censor and Vixen, with whom she had been in company.

Grampus returned to Portsmouth from Gurnsey on the 20th of June to fit out for the East Indies and sailed with a convoy under her protection on the 29th. She carried £100,000 that the Honourable East India Company was shipping to Bengal. By the16th of October she was three days out of Rio in company with HMS Russell together with the Indiamen which they were escorting. After their arrival in the Indies, Grampus was destined to spend until the end of 1809 in the East Indies or at the Cape.

In the March of 1806 Captain James Haldane Tait relieved Caulfield in command of Grampus. Later she was stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, and returned home in the summer of 1809, escorting a large convoy of East India Company ships which Captain Tait had taken under his protection at St Helena.

He was presented by the Court of directors with a sum of money for the purchase of a piece of plate. Grampus was paid off because of her poor condition at the end of 1809. Grampus then underwent a repair and refit at Chatham which was completed by the February of 1810. During her refit, in the January of 1810, she was recommissioned under the command of Captain William Hanwell who was to command her until 1812. On the 28th of April she sailed with a convoy destined for the East Indies and saw them safely through to the coast of Africa.
Having returned to Portsmouth, on the 30th of September, a courts martial was convened on board HMS Raisonnable to try Lieutenant John Cheshire of Grampus. Captain Hanwell having accused him of insolence, contempt, and disrespect on the 11th of April, and similar conduct, coupled with neglect of duty, on the 15th of that same month. The court found that the charges were unfounded and acquitted Lieutenant Cheshire.

In the November of 1811 Commodore George Cockburn hoisted his broad pendant on board Grampus, preparatory to proceeding as one of three commissioners, the others being Thomas Sydenham and John Morier, all nominated by the Prince Regent to mediate between Spain and her colonies. They arrived in Cadiz on the 21st of April, 1812, only to discover that the Spanish government and the majority of the Cortes resolved to retain absolute control over their South American possessions instead of taking a liberal view as proposed by the British government. He returned from his unsuccessful mission on 4 August.

Grampus then sailed to North America under Captain Robert Barrie on the in the June of that same year, and thence to the Leeward Islands on the 2nd of September. In the following month command was transferred to Captain Francis Collier until 1815 as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Francis Laforey, effective from 1813. From 1814 to 1815 Grampus spent time in the East Indies before returning to England to be paid off and laid up at Woolwich in the July of that year.

Fate.



In 1816 she was transferred to Deptford where she was converted to a troopship in 1817, and then by Admiralty Orders issued on the 13th of January 1820 she was fitted and used as a hospital ship at there from 1820 until being lent to the Society for Distressed Seamen in 1824. She served in this role in the Thames until 1831 when she was returned to the Royal Navy and sold at Woolwich to a Mr Batson in late 1832.

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H.M.S. Grampus lying off Deptford Creek, Greenwich

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HMS Jupiter (1813)

The Jupiter Class 50 gun fourth rate ship was designed by Sir William Rule, based on the reduced lines of the 80 gun Danish Prize Christian VII, approved on the 30th of June, 1810. She was built by M/shipwright Joseph Tucker to the May of 1813 and completed by Thomas Roberts at Plymouth. She was the only ship in her class, and one of the last three 50 gun ships built during the hostilities. Ordered on the 30th of June, 1810, HMS Jupiter was laid down in the August of 1811, and launched on the 22nd of November, 1813. She was placed in Ordinary during 1814, and fitted for sea in the March of 1815 before being laid up. Her cost before fitting being £36,733, partial fitting adding a further £12,494 to the bill.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Jupiter
Ordered:	30.6.1810
Builder:	Tucker, Plymouth
Launched:	22.11.1813
Fate:	BU. 28.1.1870
General characteristics
Class and type:	Jupiter Class 50 gun fourth rate ship
Tons burthen:	11734⁄94 (bm)
Length:	154ft 0in (gundeck)
Beam:	41ft 71⁄2 in
Depth of hold:	18ft 0in
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 22 × 24 pdr guns Upper gundeck: 24 × 12 pdr guns QD: 8 × 24 pdr Carronades FC: 2 × 6 pdr + 2 x 24 pdr Carronades

Service.

HMS Jupiter was commissioned briefly in 1815 under Commander Henry Meynell. She was classed as a troopship in the November of 1819. In the latter part of 1821 she underwent a small repair, and was then fitted to carry the new Governor General to India from the May to September of 1822. She was then recommissioned as a troopship under Captain George Westphal, and had one further captain until reassigned under Captain William Wiseman as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Willoughby Lake on the Hailifax station from 1825. In the December of 1826 the captaincy passed to William Webb until she paid off in the May of 1827.

She became a troopship of 30 guns again in 1829 until fitted as a temporary lazarette at Plymouth im the August of 1831.Between the April and July of 1842 she was refitted as a troopship at a cost of £15,671 and then fitted as suitable to convey the Governor General The Earl of Auckland to India and was re-rated to a 38 gun ship in the September of 1835.In the November of that year she was recommissioned under Captain Frederic Grey, and then paid off again in the September of 1836.


Jupiter at Table Bay whilst serving as a troop ship.

Between the August and November of 1837 she was again fitted as a troop ship for £6,168, and deployed for the China War between 1839 and 1842, followed by the Vangyze operation in the July of 1842. Following this she returned to England and paid off on the 9th of December1843.

Fate.

In the April of 1846 Jupiter was fitted as a coal depot at Plymouth where she remained until under Admiralty Orders issued on the 13th of October,1869 she was to be broken up. This was completed on the 28th of January, 1870.