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  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  gundeck, measuring  at the keel,  at the beam, and a draught of . They displaced  tons burthen. The class was designed with an armament of 26  cannon on the gundeck, four  guns on the quarterdeck with four  carronades, and two 6 pdr guns and two 24 pdr carronades on the forecastle.

Ships in class
 - wrecked attempting to exit Castle Harbour, Bermuda, via Castle Roads
 – wrecked on Anticosti Island in the St Lawrence estuary 13 July 1796, abandoned 30 July 1796.
 - broken up July 1811.
 – broken up 1816
 – wrecked on Anegada Island in the Virgin Islands 23 March 1808.
 – broken up 1830.
 – broken up 1830.
 - broken up November 1815.

References
 

Age of Sail frigates of the United Kingdom