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APOLLO 5th rate sailing frigates (1799-1816)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Apollo     John Dudman, Deptford 11.1798 16.8.1799 5.10.1799 wrecked 2.4.1804
Blanche     John Dudman, Deptford 2.1800 2.10.1800 17.1.1801 captured by France 19.7.1805
Euryalus     Balthazar & Edward Adams, Bucklers Hard 10.1801 6.6.1803 9.8.1803 convict ship 11.1825
Dartmouth     Benjamin Tanner, Dartmouth 7.1804 --- --- firm failed 2.1807
Dartmouth     Mr. Cook, Dartmouth 1810 28.8.1813 20.9.1813 quarantine service 7.1831
Creole     Plymouth DYd 9.1811 1.5.1813 20.8.1813 harbour service 7.1833
Semiramis     Deptford DYd 4.1807 25.7.1808 6.9.1808 corvette 6.1828, depot ship 1832
Owen Glendower     Thomas Steemson, Hull 1.1807 19.11.1808 22.3.1809 convict ship 10.1842
Curacoa     Robert Guillaume, Northam 1.1808 23.9.1809 23.1.1810 corvette 6.1831, BU 3.1849
Saldanha     Simon Temple, South Shields 3.1807 8.12.1809 1810 wrecked 4.12.1811
Hotspur     George Parsons, Warsash 8.1807 13.10.1810 9.2.1811 BU 1.1821
Havannah     Wilson, Liverpool 3.1808 26.3.1811 29.7.1811 corvette 6.1845, harbour TS 3.1860
Malacca (ex-Penang)     'Prince of Wales Island', Penang, Malaya 2.1808 6.3.1809 28.10.1810 BU 3.1816
Orpheus     Deptford DYd 8.1808 12.8.1809 21.9.1809 BU 8.1819
Leda     Woolwich DYd 10.1808 9.11.1809 8.12.1809 sold 4.1817
Theban     George Parsons, Warsash 6.1808 22.12.1809 25.4.1810 BU 5.1817
Manilla     Woolwich DYd 10.1807 11.9.1809 18.10.1809 wrecked 28.1.1812
Astraea     Robert Guillaume, Northam 12.1808 5.1810 24.9.1810 depot ship 8.1823
Belvidera     Deptford DYd 12.1808 23.12.1809 16.2.1810 store depot 10.1846
Galatea     Deptford DYd 8.1809 31.8.1810 18.10.1810 receiving ship 9.1836
Maidstone     Deptford DYd 9.1810 18.10.1811 13.12.1811 receiving ship 8.1832
Stag     Deptford DYd 1.1811 26.9.1812 11.1812 BU 9.1821
Magicienne     Daniel List, Binstead, Isle of Wight 4.1811 8.8.1812 24.10.1812 corvette 11.1831, BU 3.1845
Pallas     Robert Guillaume, Northam 5.1811 --- --- builder bankruptcy 1813
Pallas     Portsmouth DYd 4.1814 13.4.1816 27.4.1816 coal depot 11.1836
Barrosa     Deptford DYd 10.1811 21.10.1812 10.12.1812 slop ship 9.1823
Tartar     Deptford DYd 10.1812 6.4.1814 6.5.1814 receiving ship 3.1830
Brilliant     Deptford DYd 11.1813 28.12.1814 5.3.1815 corvette 4.1846, harbour TS 2.1860

 

Displacement normal, t

944bm

Malacca: 989bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

44.2 gundeck

Malacca: 46.3 gundeck

Breadth, m

11.6

Malacca: 11.8

Draught, m

4.04 hold depth

Malacca: 4.01 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

14 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 26 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 4 x 1 - 107/14 9pdr SBML

Complement

264

Project history: 18pdr frigates, 36 guns (fifth rate), reclassed as 42/44-gun in 1817. Designed by Sir William Rule.

Modernizations: 1828, Semiramis: was cut down to 24-gun 6th rate corvette with armament consisted of 16 x 1 - 161/16 32pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 2 x 1 - 93/16 6pdr SBML

1829, Galatea: fitted with experimental man-powered propelling machinery

1831, Curacoa, Magicienne: were cut down to 26-gun 6th rate corvettes with armament consisted of 6 x 1 - 204/13 68pdr 65cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 85cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 6 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML

1837, Curacoa: armament consisted of 24 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 40cwt SBML

1839, Magicienne: was armed with 2 x 1 - 204/12 8'' 52cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 20 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 40cwt SBML

1845, Havannah; 1846, Brilliant: were cut down to 22-gun 6th rate corvettes with 22 x 1 - 161/15 32pdr 40cwt SBML

1848, Havannah: was armed with 6 x 1 - 204/12 8'' 52cwt shell SBML, 1 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 87cwt SBML, 12 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, complement 230

1848, Brilliant: was armed with 6 x 1 - 204/12 8'' 52cwt shell SBML, 2 x 1 - 194/16 56pdr 87cwt SBML, 10 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr 50cwt SBML, 2 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML carronades

Naval service: Apollo wrecked near Cape Mondego (Portugal) 2.4.1804. Blanche was taken by French 40-gun frigate Le Topaze and others in the Atlantic off Porto 19.7.1805 and burnt. Saldanha wrecked 4.12.1811 off Lough Swilly. Manilla wrecked on the Haak Sand 28.1.1812.

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