The Artois class were a series of nine frigates built to a 1793 design by Sir John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Seven of these ships were built by contract with commercial builders, while the remaining pair (Tamar and Clyde) were dockyard-built – the latter built using "fir" (pitch pine) instead of the normal oak.
They were armed with a main battery of 28 eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate. Besides this battery, they also carried two 9-pounders together with twelve 32-pounder carronades on the quarterdeck, and another two 9-pounders together with two 32-pounder carronades on the forecastle.
| Ship name | Builder | Ordered | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John & William Wells, Rotherhithe | 28 March 1793 | March 1793 | 3 January 1794 | December 1793 | Wrecked on the Ballieu rocks off Brittany on 31 July 1797 | [1] | |
| Randall & Co, Rotherhithe | 3 March 1794 | April 1794 | Sold to new Dutch Navy on 7 March 1815; burnt in fire at Willemsoord, Den Helder on 16 January 1839 | [2] | |||
| Perry & Hankey, Blackwall | 18 March 1794 | August 1794 | Wrecked on the Haak sands off the Dutch coast on 7 January 1799 | ||||
| William Barnard, Deptford | April 1793 | 17 March 1794 | April 1794 | Broken up at Sheerness Dockyard in June 1812 | [3] | ||
| Marmaduke Stalkart, Rotherhithe | 14 February 1793 | March 1793 | 11 June 1794 | July 1794 | Broken up at Plymouth Dockyard in July 1819 | ||
| John Dudman, Deptford | 1 April 1793 | April 1793 | 3 April 1794 | May 1794 | Wrecked on rocks off Brittany on 13 October 1798 | [4] | |
| Chatham Royal Dockyard | 4 February 1795 | June 1795 | 26 March 1796 | April 1796 | Broken up in January 1810 at Chatham Dockyard. | [5] | |
| Sold to be broken up August 1814. | |||||||
| Joseph Graham, Harwich | 30 April 1795 | October 1795 | 14 March 1797 | April 1797 | Wrecked on the Penmarcks on 25 December 1799 | [6] | |