Category:HMS Rose (ship, 1970)

HMS Rose 

1757 Seaford-class sixth-rate frigate
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Instance of	sixth-rate frigate
Operator	Royal Navy
Location of creation	Kingston upon Hull
Vessel class	Seaford-class sixth-rate frigate
Service entry	1757
Service retirement	19 September 1779
Date of official opening	8 March 1758
Significant event	ship launching (1757) keel laying (1756)
Powered by	sail
Different from	HMS Rose HMS Rose
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HMS Rose (ship, 1970), built to the Admiralty plans of HMS Rose (ship, 1757); the ship was meant to be a close replica of the original Rose. Copies of the original British Admiralty drawings were used, the hull shape was modified below the water line, sharpening up her entry so she sailed to windward better. Unlike some square-riggers, she could sail two points (22-1/2 degrees) on the wind provided that seas remained under four feet or so. The arrangement of her decks were changed at the banks insistence, so that she could be used as a tavern and restaurant (it never was used as such).

In her lifetime as Rose, her figurehead had to be replaced twice, each time slightly upgraded. One was damaged in a storm off Bermuda on her way to Norfolk, Virginia in June 1998.

Late in the 1990s, at Patrick O’Brian's suggestion the Rose was painted in an 1805 colour scheme so she would be a "dead-ringer" for the frigate Surprise that appeared in his books. The Captain Richard Bailey quickly made the change.

Sold to the 20th Century Fox film studio in March 2001. She was renamed HMS Surprise, after extensive modifications to be used in the making of the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, in which she portrayed the Royal Navy frigate Surprise. The modifications included a reshaped stern, all deck structures removed, the single ship's wheel replaced by a double wheel, period fighting tops fitted, new sails, and the figurehead replaced.