Sphinx-class sailing sixth rates were a series of ten post ships built to a 1773 design by John Williams. Although smaller than true frigates, post ships...

HMS Vestal was a 20-gun sixth-rate Sphinx-class post ship of the Royal Navy. Commissioned by Captain James Shirley, Vestal escorted a convoy to Newfoundland...

example of a post ship, see HMS Camilla. She was one of ten Sphinx-class post ships built during the 1770s. The United States Navy termed ships of this type...

Navy, designed the class as a development of his earlier design (1773) for the 20-gun Sphinx class. The 1776 design enlarged the ship, which permitted the...

HMS Camilla was a Royal Navy 20-gun Sphinx-class post ship. Camilla was built in Chatham Dockyard to a design by John Williams and was launched in 1776...

HMS Galatea was a 20-gun Sphinx-class sixth-rate post-ship of the Royal Navy. She was designed by John Williams and built by Adam Hayes in Deptford Dockyard...

HMS Ariel was a 20-gun Sphinx-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. The French captured her in 1779, and she served during the American Revolutionary...

At least six ships of the Royal Navy, have been named HMS Daphne after the naiad Daphne: HMS Daphne (1776), was a Sphinx-class post ship that the French...

Experiment-class ship (1772) a series of 50-gun ships Sphinx-class post ship (1773) a series of ten 20-gun post ships HMS Royal Sovereign (1774) 100-gun ship of the...

Six ships (and one shore establishment) of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sphinx or HMS Sphynx, after the mythical creature, the Sphinx: HMS Sphinx (1748)...