HMS Ulysses (1779)

	File:Representation of the Distressed Situation of His majesty's Ship Ulysses - when Dismasted in the Hurricane August 1st 1781, and narrowly escaped being Wrecked on the South side of Jamaica RMG PY0735.jpg Distressed Situation of Ulysses - when dismasted in the Hurricane of 1 August 1781, and narrowly escaping being wrecked on the south side of Jamaica
History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
Name:	HMS Ulysses
Ordered:	16 April 1777
Builder:	John Fisher, Liverpool
Laid down:	28 June 1777
Launched:	14 July 1779
Completed:	Fit-out at builder by 9 October 1779; Guns and crew at Plymouth Dockyard by 2 January 1780;
Commissioned:	May 1779
In service:	1780–1783; 1790, 1791; 1793–1794; 1795–1802; 1802–1804; 1807–1815;
Fate:	Sold at Sheerness Dockyard, 1815
General characteristics
Class & type:	44-gun Roebuck-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:	887 8⁄94 bm
Length:	140 ft 0 in (42.7 m) (gundeck); 115 ft 3 in (35.1 m) (keel);
Beam:	38 ft 0 in (11.6 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 4.75 in (5.00 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	280 (320 from 1783)
Armament:	44 guns comprising:; Upper deck: 22 × 9-pounder guns; Lower deck: 20 × 18-pounder guns; Forecastle: 2 x 6-pounder guns;

HMS Ulysses was a 48-gun Roebuck-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. Commissioned in 1779, her principal active service was in the Caribbean, interspersed with periods as a troopship and storeship. She was decommissioned and sold at Sheerness Dockyard in 1815.^[1]

Career

Pomona and Ulysses when dismasted in the Great Hurricane on 6 October 1780 in the Mona Passage

On 2 June 1781, Ulysses encountered the 32-gun Fée, under Captain de Boubée. The ships broke contact after a brief battle.^[2]

On 5 June, Ulysses chased the 32-gun Surveillante, under Jean-Marie de Villeneuve Cillart, off Saint-Domingue. Around 2130, Ulysses caught up with Surveillante, and a 2-hour and a half-battle ensued, after which the frigates broke contact.^[3]

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