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Showing posts with label Apollo Class 36-gun frigates. Show all posts
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Friday, April 25, 2014

Apollo-Class 36-gun Frigates


From Wikipedia.

Twenty-seven frigates, one of which was the HMS Orpheus, were built to the 1798 design of Sir William Rule. Most served in the Napoleonic Wars.

--Brock-Perry

HMS Orpheus: Captured the USS Frolic


From Wikipedia.

One of seven Royal Navy ships to bear the name. A 36-gun Apollo-class 5th-rate frigate, 145 feet long with crew of 264.

Ordered 1807, laid down August 1808 at Deptford Dockyard, launched 12 August 1809 and completed in September.

Part of the British fleet blockading Long Island Sound. In May 1813, chased American privateet Holkar aground and destroyed it with cannon fire.

Part of the British squadron that chased Stephen Decatur's fleet into New London and blockaded it.

On April 20, 1814, it and HMS Shelburne captured the USS Frolic.

Broken up in 1819.

--Brock-Perry