HMS Hermione (1782)

HMS Hermione (1782)


Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns
QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades

Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Hermione was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was notorious for having the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw her captain and most of the officers killed. The mutineers then handed the ship over to the Spanish, where she remained for two years, before being cut-out and returned to Royal Navy service under the names Retaliation and then Retribution.

Read more about HMS Hermione (1782):  Early Years, Mutiny, Recapture and Renaming, Return To British Service, Fate