HMS Belvidera (1809)

Belvidera (left) battling and USS President on 23 August 1812
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Belvidera
Ordered28 September 1808
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid downDecember 1808
Launched23 December 1809
Fate
  • Receiving ship, Portsmouth, 1860
  • Sold for breaking, 1906
General characteristics
TypeApollo-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen9435394 (as designed)
Length
  • 145 ft (44 m) (gundeck)
  • 121 ft 9+38 in (37.119 m) (gundeck)
Beam38 ft 2 in (11.63 m)
Draught13 ft 3 in (4.04 m)
PropulsionSail
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement264
Armament
  • Upper deck:26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Belvidera was a 36-gun Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy built in Deptford Dockyard in 1809. She saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 and continued a busy career at sea into the middle of the 19th century. In 1846 she was reduced to harbour service, in 1860 she became a receiving ship, and she was finally disposed of in 1906.