The Apollo-class sailing
frigates were a series of twenty-seven ships that the
British Admiralty commissioned be built to a 1798 design by Sir
William Rule. Twenty-five served in the
Royal Navy during the
Napoleonic Wars, two being launched too late.
Of the 25 ships that served during the Napoleonic Wars, only one was lost to enemy action. Of the entire class of 27 ships, only two were lost to wrecking, and none to foundering.
The Admiralty ordered three frigates in 1798–1800. Following the
Peace of Amiens, it ordered a further twenty-four sister-ships to the same design between 1803 and 1812. The last was ordered to a fresh 38-gun design. Initially, the Admiralty split the order for the 24 vessels equally between its yards and commercial yards, but two commercial yards failed to perform and the Admiralty transferred these orders to its own dockyards, making the split 14–10 as between the Admiralty and commercial yards.
Fate: Receiving ship in November 1850, renamed Calypso on 9 March 1870. Sold to be broken up on 28 February 1895.
References
Robert Gardiner, The Heavy Frigate, Conway Maritime Press, London 1994.
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008.
ISBN978-1-84415-717-4.
David Lyon and Rif Winfield, The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815–1889, Chatham Publishing, 2004.
ISBN1-86176-032-9.
The Apollo-class sailing
frigates were a series of twenty-seven ships that the
British Admiralty commissioned be built to a 1798 design by Sir
William Rule. Twenty-five served in the
Royal Navy during the
Napoleonic Wars, two being launched too late.
Of the 25 ships that served during the Napoleonic Wars, only one was lost to enemy action. Of the entire class of 27 ships, only two were lost to wrecking, and none to foundering.
The Admiralty ordered three frigates in 1798–1800. Following the
Peace of Amiens, it ordered a further twenty-four sister-ships to the same design between 1803 and 1812. The last was ordered to a fresh 38-gun design. Initially, the Admiralty split the order for the 24 vessels equally between its yards and commercial yards, but two commercial yards failed to perform and the Admiralty transferred these orders to its own dockyards, making the split 14–10 as between the Admiralty and commercial yards.
Fate: Receiving ship in November 1850, renamed Calypso on 9 March 1870. Sold to be broken up on 28 February 1895.
References
Robert Gardiner, The Heavy Frigate, Conway Maritime Press, London 1994.
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, 2nd edition, Seaforth Publishing, 2008.
ISBN978-1-84415-717-4.
David Lyon and Rif Winfield, The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815–1889, Chatham Publishing, 2004.
ISBN1-86176-032-9.