The Druid sub-class was an enlarged and improved version of the Serinapatam design, modified with a circular stern.[1] Nemesis had a length at the gundeck of 159feet and 133feet at the keel. She had a beam of 41feet, a draught of 15feet and a depth of hold of 12feet. The ship's tonnage was 1167 tons burthen.[2] The Druid sub-class was armed with twenty-eight 18-pounder cannon on her gundeck, fourteen 32-pounder carronades on her quarterdeck and a pair of 9-pounder cannon and two more 32-pounder carronades in the forecastle. The ships had a crew of 315 officers and ratings.[3]
Nemesis, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,[4] was ordered on 23 July 1817, laid down in August 1823 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 19 August 1826.[3] She was completed for ordinary at Plymouth Dockyard in September 1826 and the ship was roofed over from the mainmast forward. The ship was never commissioned and was broken up by 4 July 1866.[2]