Everything about Fifth-rate totally explained
In the
Royal Navy, a
fifth-rate was a sailing
frigate mounting 32 to 44 guns with the main battery on a single
deck.
Fifth-rate ships acted as fast
scouts or independent
cruisers and included a variety of gun arrangements from 32 or 36 x 12 pounders to 36, 38, 40 or even 44 x 18 pound guns. Tonnage ranged from 700 to 1450 tons, with crews of 215 to 294 men.
To be posted aboard a Fifth-rate ship was considered an attractive assignment. Fifth-raters were often assigned to interdict enemy shipping - meaning the prospect of
prize money for the crew.
Fifth rate frigates were considered useful for their combination of manoeuvrability and fire-power, which, in theory, would allow them to outmanoeuvre an enemy of greater force and run down one of lesser force. It was for this reason that frigates of this sort were commonly used in patrol and to disrupt enemy shipping lanes much as
battlecruisers would later in history.
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