HMS Pyramus (1810)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Pyramus
Ordered: 1810
Laid down: 1810
Fate: Sold in September 1879
General characteristics [1]
Length:
  • 76 ft 1 in (23.19 m) (gundeck)
  • 62 ft 3 1⁄4 in (18.980 m) (keel)
Beam: 22 ft 6 1⁄2 in (6.871 m)
Depth of hold: 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m)
Sail plan: Brig
Complement: 50
Armament:

HMS Pyramus was a fifth rate 36-gun frigate built in Portsmouth and hulked in 1832-3 at Halifax, N.S., sold and broken up in 1879. The information that the ship had been captured by Lord Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 is incorrect. (Source Dr. Ian A. Cameron, M.D, F.C.F.P., Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin, August 1987, pp. 118–120; Also, the Cambridge Digital Library / University of Cambridge website)[2][3][4][5]

Career

Pyramus was a fixture of the Halifax waterfront for over 50 years. Used during the Chorea Epidemic as a hospital ship.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Winfield (2008), p.331.
  2. ↑ https://novascotia.ca/archives/royalnavy/archives.asp?ID=32
  3. ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?id=BmUbAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA264&lpg=PA264&dq=Pyramus+hospital+ship&source=bl&ots=JHWobREMDw&sig=fedGs5NKCvUwrkU6OPZummaJEYE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4tP7X_LvWAhWp6YMKHZTeDCoQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=Pyramus%20hospital%20ship&f=false
  4. ↑ The Naval Chronicle: Volume 23, January–July 1810: Containing a ..., Volume 23
  5. ↑ British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 35
  6. ↑ Halifax's North End: an anthropologist looks at the city Front Cover, Paul A. Erickson, Lancelot Press, 1986 - Social Science - page 22
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