HMS Colossus

Overview
Rating: 5th rate

Class: Deliverance-class fifth-rate frigate

Shipyard: Plymouth DY

Launched: August 5th, 1719

Status: Laid up in drydock.

Armament
Total Guns: 36

Topdeck: 10 x 9lbs

Gundeck: 24 x 16lbs

Stern Chasers: 2 x 18lbs

Broadside Weight: 237lbs

Crew: 435

Commanders
Current Captain: -

Previous Captains:

April, 1720 - March 12th, 1721: Captain Collister

August 5th, 1719 - April, 1720: Captain William Rowley

Ship History
The Colossus was promised to Captain Collister before she was launched. A fifth-rate frigate with a broadside weight of 237lbs she was to be his heaviest command to date. Captain William Rowley was charged with taking the Colossus to Port Royal from Portsmouth directly after her launch. However, her presence was required in the Channel and she served under Captain Rowley for a several months before embarking on the journey to the West Indies.

Arriving in April, 1720, she was handed over to Captain Collister who used her as a patrol vessel in the Yucatan for the better part of a year. Despite her impressive armament, Captain Collister found it difficult to come to terms with the frigate as she had a tendency to "act like a god-damned stubborn mule" and responded poorly to setting anything other than the most conservative sails in any situation.

In March, 1721, she was laid up in drydock as Captain Collister moved on to other commands.