Sixth rate
Jun 25, 2011 Sixth rate
Sixth rate.
Sixth-rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 18 and 28 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without. Sixth-rate ships typically had a crew of about 150 and measured between 450 and 550 tons. Usually sixth-rates were small frigates. Some larger ship-rigged, flush-decked vessels, were rated, which meant they were large enough to rate a Post-Captain in command, instead of a Lieutenant or Commander.
In later years sixth-rate frigates were sometimes called “jackass frigates”, as they were really not quite big enough for proper frigate duties.
Configuations:-
28 guns
24 guns
22 guns
20 guns
