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The ''Venus''-class frigates were three 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 to be 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. Slade's 36-gun design was approved on 13 July 1756, on which date two ships were approved to be built by contract to these plans. A third ship was ordered about two weeks later, to be built in a royal dockyard. == Ships in class == * ''Pallas'' * * Ordered: 13 July 1756 * * Built by: William Wells & Company, Deptford. * * Keel laid: July 1756 * * Launched: 30 August 1757 * * Completed: 8 October 1757 at Deptford Dockyard. * * Fate: Run ashore due to leaks and burnt on Sao Jorge (Azores) on 12 February 1783. * ''Venus'' * * Ordered: 13 July 1756 * * Built by: John Okill, Liverpool. * * Keel laid: 16 August 1756 * * Launched: 11 March 1758 * * Completed: 30 June 1758 at the builder's shipyard. * * Fate: Reduced to 32 guns in 1792. Renamed ''Heroine'' on 14 July 1807. Paid off 1809 and laid up. Sold to break up at Deptford Dockyard on 22 September 1828. * ''Brilliant'' * * Ordered: 29 July 1756 * * Built by: Plymouth Dockyard. * * Keel laid: 28 August 1756 * * Launched: 27 October 1757 * * Completed: 20 November 1757. * * Fate: Sold at Deptford Dockyard on 1 November 1776. 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「Venus-class frigate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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