HMS Triton (1773)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Triton.

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Triton
Ordered:	25 December 1770
Builder:	Henry Adams, Bucklers Hard
Laid down:	February 1771
Launched:	1 October 1773
Completed:	4 November 1775 at Portsmouth Dockyard
Commissioned:	August 1775
Fate:	Taken to pieces at Deptford in January 1796
General characteristics
Class & type:	Modified Mermaid-class frigate
Displacement:	620 ​21⁄94 (bm)
Length:	124 ft 1 in (37.82 m) (gundeck) 103 ft 4.625 in (31.51188 m) (keel)
Beam:	33 ft 7 in (10.24 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	200 officers and men
Armament:	28 guns comprising Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder cannon Quarterdeck 4 × 3-pounder cannon 12 swivels.

HMS Triton was a modified Mermaid-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in August 1775 under Captain Skeffington Lutwidge.

References

• Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9.
• David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
• Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.