HMS Cyane (1806)

HMS Cyane from stern
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cyane
Ordered	30 January 1805
Builder	John Bass, Topsham, Exeter
Laid down	August 1805
Launched	14 October 1806
Completed	13 July 1807
Commissioned	March 1807
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasps: "Cyane 25–27 June 1809"[1] "Cyane 16 Jany. 1814"[2]
Captured	20 February 1815
United States
Name	USS Cyane
Acquired	By capture, 20 February 1815
Commissioned	1815
Decommissioned	1827
Fate	Broken up, 1836
General characteristics [3]
Class and type	22-gun Banterer-class sixth-rate post ship[4][5]
Tons burthen	53939⁄94 (bm)
Length	118 ft 2 in (36.0 m) (overall) 98 ft 7+1⁄4 in (30.1 m) (keel)
Beam	32 ft 0+1⁄2 in (9.8 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	British service: 155 (later 175) US Service: 180
Armament	British service Upper deck: 22 × 9-pounder guns (later replaced by 22 × 32-pounder carronades) QD: 6 × 18-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 6-pounder chase guns + 2 × 18-pounder guns US Service Upper deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades QD: 8 × 18-pounder carronades Fc: 4 × 12-pounder guns

HMS Cyane was a Royal Navy Banterer-class sixth-rate post ship of nominally 22 guns, built in 1806 at Topsham, near Exeter, England. She was ordered in January 1805 as HMS Columbine but renamed Cyane on 6 December of that year. Cyane had a distinguished career in British service that included the award in 1847 of a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal to any still surviving crew members of either of two actions. On 20 February 1815, she and HMS Levant engaged USS Constitution; outgunned, both had to surrender. She then served as USS Cyane, including a stint on anti-slavery duties, until she was broken up in 1836.