High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Venus class frigates were 36-gun sailing frigates of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy. They were designed in 1756 by Sir Thomas Slade, and were enlarged from his design for the 32-gun Southampton class frigates, which had been approved four months earlier. The 36-gun frigates, of which this was the only British design in the era of the 12-pounder frigate, carried the same battery of twenty-six 12-pounders as the 32-gun predecessors; the...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Venus class frigates were 36-gun sailing frigates of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy. They were designed in 1756 by Sir Thomas Slade, and were enlarged from his design for the 32-gun Southampton class frigates, which had been approved four months earlier. The 36-gun frigates, of which this was the only British design in the era of the 12-pounder frigate, carried the same battery of twenty-six 12-pounders as the 32-gun predecessors; the only difference lay in the secondary armament on the quarter deck, which was here doubled to eight 6-pounders.
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