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} |} HMS ''Perseverance'' was a 36-gun frigate of the British Royal Navy. She served on the North American station until 1787 after which she returned to England where she was refitted at Portsmouth. In 1789 ''Perseverance'' was sent to the East Indies, she returned to Portsmouth in 1793 when she was laid up before finishing her career there as a receiving ship. She was sold and broken up in May 1823. ==Background== Britain's early preference for smaller warships was dictated by its need to maintain a large navy at a reasonable cost. By the latter half of the 1770s however, Britain was facing a war with France, Spain and the United States of America, and found herself in need of a more powerful type of frigate.〔Winfield (2008) p.137〕 In 1778, the Navy Board ordered the first of two new types of frigate, the 38-gun ''Minerva''-class, designed by Edward Hunt, and the 36-gun ''Flora''-class, designed by John Williams. Both had a main battery of 18 pounder guns.〔Winfield (2008) pp.136 & 137〕 Shortly after, in 1779, Hunt was asked to design a 36-gun frigate as a comparison to William's ''Flora''-class.〔Winfield (2007) p.208〕 The result was the ''Perseverance''-class and HMS ''Perseverance'', was the first of these fifth rates, ordered for the Royal Navy on 3 December 1779. It was followed by ''Phoenix'' in June 1781, ''Inconstant'' in December and ''Leda'' in March 1782.〔Winfield (2007) pp.208–209〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Perseverance (1781)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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