HMS Orestes (1824)

HMS Orestes was a 18-gun sloop built and launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in May 1824. The vessel became the fifth ship to carry the name Orestes, named after the Greek mythological figure who was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Ordered on 21 May 1821 and laid down in April 1823, the sloop was designed by shipbuilder, James Inman.

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