Active-class frigate

The Active-class frigate was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate class of eight ships designed by Edward Hunt to replace the Amazon-class frigate design, which they resembled with a distinct midsection. Due to poor performance of the Active class, orders continued for the Amazon class.

Description
The Active class was designed with a 126 ft gundeck, measuring 103 ft at the keel, 35 ft at the beam, and a draught of 12 ft. They displaced $29/94$ tons burthen. The class was designed with an armament of 26 12 pdr cannon on the gundeck, four 6 pdr guns on the quarterdeck with four 24 pdr carronades, and two 6 pdr guns and two 24 pdr carronades on the forecastle.

Ships in class

 * HMS Cerberus (1779) - wrecked attempting to exit Castle Harbour, Bermuda, via Castle Roads
 * HMS Active (1780) – wrecked on Anticosti Island in the St Lawrence estuary 13 July 1796, abandoned 30 July 1796.
 * HMS Daedalus (1780) - broken up July 1811.
 * HMS Fox (1780) – broken up 1816
 * HMS Astraea (1781) – wrecked on Anegada Island in the Virgin Islands 23 March 1808.
 * HMS Ceres (1781) – broken up 1830.
 * HMS Quebec (1781) – broken up 1830.
 * HMS Mermaid (1784) - broken up November 1815.