Bantereer class sixth rate

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|Ship type=[[Sixth rate]] [[post ship]]
|Ship tons burthen=537 2/94 (as designed)
|Ship length= {{convert|118|ft|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck)<br>
{{convert|98|ft|7.125|in|m|abbr=on}} (keel)
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|Ship complement=155 (later raised to 175).
|Ship armament=''As ordered'' :<br/ >UD: 22 × 9-pounder guns<br>(replaced by 22 x 32-pounder carronades)<br>QD: 6 × 24-pounder carronades<br>FC: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 24-pounder carronades
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The '''''Banterer'' class''' sailing [[post ship]]s were a series of six ships built to a 1805 design by Sir William Rule, which served in the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[Napoleonic War]].

== Ships in class ==
* {{HMS|Crocodile|1806|6}}
** Builder: Simon Temple, [[South Shields]]
** Ordered: 30 January 1805
** Laid down: June 1805
** Launched: 19 April 1806
** Completed: 10 August 1806 at [[Chatham Dockyard]]
** Fate: Broken up at [[Portsmouth]] 1n October [[1816]].
* {{HMS|Daphne|1806|6}}
** Builder: Robert Davy, [[Topsham]], [[Exeter]]
** Ordered: 30 January 1805
** Laid down: July 1805
** Launched: 2 July 1806
** Completed: 4 October 1806 at [[Plymouth Dockyard]]
** Fate: Sold to be broken up at [[Deptford]] 1n February [[1816]].
* {{HMS|Cossack|1806|6}}
** Builder: Simon Temple, [[South Shields]]
** Ordered: 30 January 1805
** Laid down: July 1805
** Launched: 24 December 1806
** Completed: 2 July 1807 at [[Chatham Dockyard]]
** Fate: Broken up at [[Portsmouth]] 1n June [[1816]].
* {{HMS|Cyane|1806|6}}
** Builder: John Bass, [[Topsham]], [[Exeter]]
** Ordered: 30 January 1805
** Laid down: August 1805
** Launched: 14 October 1806
** Completed: 13 July 1807 at [[Plymouth Dockyard]]
** Fate: Captured by the United States Navy on 20 February 1815.
* {{HMS|Banterer|1807|6}}
** Builder: Simon Temple, [[South Shields]]
** Ordered: 30 January 1805
** Laid down: August 1805
** Launched: 24 February 1807
** Completed: 12 July 1807 at [[Chatham Dockyard
** Fate: Wrecked in the [[Saint Lawrence Rivere]] 1n October [[1808]].
* {{HMS|Porcupine|1807|6}}
** Builder: Thomas Owen, [[Topsham]], [[Exeter]]
** Ordered: 30 January 1805
** Laid down: September 1805
** Launched: 26 January 1807
** Completed: 22 June 1807 at [[Plymouth Dockyard]]
** Fate: Sold to be broken up at [[Woolwich]] 1n April [[1816]].

==References==
* Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817'', Chatham Publishing, London 2005; revised edition, Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley 2008 ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.

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[[Category:Banterer Class Sixth rates| ]]
[[Category:Royal Navy Post-ships]]