HMS Camel (1776)

History
Great Britain
Name	Yorkshire
Builder	Whitby[1]
Launched	1776[1]
Fate	Sold 1776
Great Britain
Name	HMS Camel
Acquired	1776 by purchase
Commissioned	November 1776
Out of service	Paid off in July 1784
Fate	Sold 1784
General characteristics
Tons burthen	51646⁄94,[2] or 600[1] (bm)
Length	Overall:113 ft 0 in (34.4 m) Keel:96 ft 11+1⁄2 in (29.6 m)
Beam	31 ft 7+3⁄4 in (9.6 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 3+1⁄2 in (4.1 m)
Complement	Fifth rate:160 Armed transport:52
Armament	1776: Upper deck (UD):20 × 9–pounder guns QD:4 × 3-pounder guns 10 × ½–pounder swivel guns 1780:**Upper deck (UD):22 × 9–pounder guns QD:4 × 6-pounder guns 1782:14 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Camel was the mercantile Yorkshire, which the Royal Navy purchased for use as a sixth-rate frigate. She captured a few merchant vessels in the West Indies, but spent most of her service escorting convoys across the Atlantic. She was converted to an armed transport in 1782–83. The Navy sold her in 1784.