HMS Stag was a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s, one of three ships of the Andromeda sub-class.
Description The Andromeda sub-class was a slightly enlarged and improved version of the Druid sub-class, with a more powerful armament.Winfield, pp. 712–13 Stag had a length at the gundeck of and at the keel. She had a beam of , a draught of and a depth of hold of . The ship's tonnage was 1167 tons burthen.Winfield, p. 717 The Andromeda sub-class was armed with twenty-six 18-pounder cannon on her gundeck, ten 32-pounder carronades and a pair of 68-pounder guns on her quarterdeck and four more 32-pounder carronades in the forecastle. The ships had a crew of 315 officers and ratings.Winfield & Lyon, p. 110
Construction and career Stag, the fourth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,Colledge, p. 331 was ordered on 9 January 1823, laid down in April 1828 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 2 October 1830. She was completed for ordinary at Plymouth Dockyard in October 1830. The ship was commissioned on 15 April 1831 and ready for sea by 9 July.
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