HMS Aurora was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, that saw service during the American and French Revolutionary wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. Designed to carry a complement of 200 men, she was armed with a main battery of twenty-four 9-pound guns.
Plan of an Enterprise-class frigate, similar to Aurora
Woolwich dockyard, painted in 1790, thirteen years after HMS Aurora was launched there
Henry Digby, captain of Aurora between January 1797 and November 1798
The Aurora passing the Marianne just previous to capturing her, from a sketch by John Theophilus Lee
The Enterprise-class frigates were the final class of 28-gun sailing frigates of the sixth-rate to be produced for the Royal Navy. These twenty-seven vessels were designed in 1770 by John Williams. A first batch of five ships were ordered as part of the programme sparked by the Falklands Islands emergency. Two ships were built by contract in private shipyards, while three others were constructed in the Royal Dockyards using foreign oak.
Plan of the Enterprise-class frigate Medea dated 1778