The Active-class frigate was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate class of eight ships designed by Edward Hunt to replace the design, which they resembled with a distinct midsection. Due to poor performance of the Active class, orders continued for the Amazon class.
Description The Active class was designed with a gundeck, measuring at the keel, at the beam, and a draught of . They displaced tons burthen. The class was designed with an armament of 26 cannon on the gundeck, four guns on the quarterdeck with four carronades, and two 6 pdr guns and two 24 pdr carronades on the forecastle.
Ships in class - wrecked attempting to exit Castle Harbour, Bermuda, via Castle Roads – wrecked on Anticosti Island in the St Lawrence estuary 13 July 1796, abandoned 30 July 1796. - broken up July 1811. – broken up 1816 – wrecked on Anegada Island in the Virgin Islands 23 March 1808. – broken up 1830. – broken up 1830. - broken up November 1815.
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