HMS Persephone 40

H.M.S. Persephone:
Rating: 5th-rate

Class: Essex

Date of Commission: August 23rd, 1819

Guns: 40

Crew: 280

Status: On the Windward Station.

History:
Described as one of the finest ships within the squadron, with fine lines, weatherly, swift, and fast. The Persephone was built by Captain William Benbow in Truxillo to the lines of the captured USS Essex. She is the pride of her Captain. She was sadly lost to a Dutch Trincomalee on August 30th, 1819 while 1/3 of her crew was aboard a captured Prize.

British Captains:
1819: Captain Nicholas Ramage