HMS Pandora (1779)
As built:
- Upper deck: 22 × 9pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 2 × 6pdrs
By 1815:
- Upper deck: 14 × 9pdrs + 8 × 18pdr carronades
- Quarterdeck: 2 × 6pdrs
HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. She is best known as the ship sent in 1790 to search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her. She was wrecked on the return voyage in 1791.
Read more about HMS Pandora (1779): Early Service, Voyage in Search of The Bounty, Wrecked, Wreck Site: Discovery and Archaeology