HMS Coventry (1757)

Coventry was built to the same design as HMS Carysfort, (pictured)
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Coventry
Operator	Royal Navy
Ordered	13 April 1756
Awarded	28 April 1756
Builder	Henry Adams's yard, Bucklers Hard
Laid down	31 May 1756
Launched	30 May 1757
Completed	31 July 1757 at Portsmouth Dockyard
Commissioned	May 1757
Out of service	1757–1763 1763–1768 1775–1783
Honours and awards	Battle of Quiberon Bay 1759 Battle of Trincomalee 1782
Captured	12 January 1783 off Ganjam, Bay of Bengal
France
Name	Coventry
Acquired	January 1783 by capture
Decommissioned	January 1785 at Brest
In service	1783–1785
Fate	Broken up, 1786
General characteristics
Class and type	Coventry-class frigate
Displacement	850 tons (French)
Tons burthen	599 25⁄94 (bm)
Length	118 ft 4+3⁄4 in (36.087 m) (gundeck) 97 ft 0+1⁄2 in (29.578 m) (keel)
Beam	34 ft 0+7⁄8 in (10.385 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	British service: 200 French service: 210 (war) and 130 (peace)
Armament	British service Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns QD: 4 × 3-pounder guns Also: 12 × swivel guns French service Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns Spardeck: 4 × 6-pounders + 6 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Coventry was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1757 and in active service as a privateer hunter during the Seven Years' War, and as part of the British fleet in India during the Anglo-French War. After seventeen years' in British service she was captured by the French in 1783, off Ganjam in the Bay of Bengal. Thereafter she spent two years as part of the French Navy until January 1785 when she was removed from service at the port of Brest. She was broken up in 1786.