HMS Euryalus (1803)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Euryalus.

Euryalus
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Euryalus
Ordered16 August 1800
BuilderBalthazar & Edward Adams, Bucklers Hard
Laid downOctober 1801
Launched6 June 1803
CommissionedJune 1803
Decommissioned1825
ReclassifiedPrison hulk, 1825
Honours and
awards
FateBroken up, 1860
General characteristics
Class & typeApollo-class frigate
Tons burthen94616⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • Overall:145 ft 2 in (44.2 m)
  • Keel:121 ft 11+3⁄4 in (37.2 m)
Beam38 ft 2+1⁄4 in (11.6 m)
Depth of hold13 ft 3 in (4.0 m)
Complement264 men
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 Euryalus was a 36-gun Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy which served in the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812. Launched in 1803, during her career she was commanded by three prominent British naval officers of the Napoleonic era: Henry Blackwood, George Heneage Lawrence Dundas and Charles John Napier. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Euryalus continued on active service for a number of years, before spending more than two decades as a prison hulk. She ended her career in Gibraltar where, in 1860, she was sold for breaking up.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.