HMS Apollo (1805)
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| Name: | HMS Apollo |
| Ordered: | 7 November 1803 |
| Builder: | George Parsons, Bursledon |
| Cost: | £34,601 |
| Laid down: | April 1804 |
| Launched: | 27 June 1805 |
| Commissioned: | July 1805 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 16 October 1856 |
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| Class and type: | Lively-class fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 1085 77⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 154 ft 3 1⁄2 in (47.0 m) (overall); 1,299 ft 9 3⁄8 in (396.2 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 39 ft 8 in (12.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Apollo, the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of the Lively class, carrying 38 guns, launched in 1805 and broken up in 1856.
Apollo was commissioned in July 1805 under Captain Edward Fellowes, who sailed her for the Mediterranean on 26 January 1806. In 1806 she operated off southern Italy. On 5 June boats from Apollo brought out a French brig near Agie Finucana, in the Gulf of Taranto, where she had run aground. The brig was transporting six 24-pounder guns, together with their carriages. The cutting out party had to work through the night under small-arms fire from the shore, as well as fire from a field piece. Still, they managed to retrieve the vessel while suffering only one man wounded. The guns were intended for a new battery opposite the lighthouse.
On 6 July Captain Fellowes was at the Battle of Maida, having been ordered to join the troops by Rear-Admiral Sir Sidney Smith to act as liaison with the Navy should the Army have had to retire. General James Stuart remarked in his account of the battle that Fellowes had been helpful in every way.
In October Apollo came under the command of Captain Alexander Schomberg. In 1807 she took part in the Alexandria expedition of 1807 in the squadron under the command of Admiral Benjamin Hallowell. However, she and the 19 transports (out of 33) that she was escorting got separated from the rest of the expedition and arrived at Abu Qir Bay too late to participate meaningfully. Seven-and-a-half years later, in October 1814, Apollo, Tigre and Wizard would share in prize money for the capture of the Turkish frigates Houri Bahar and Houri Nasaret, and the corvette Feragh Nouma as well as the stores captured on 20 March.
In 1808, Captain Bridges Taylor took command of Apollo. Under Taylor, she raided French convoys in the western Mediterranean.
On 3 June 1808, Rear Admiral Thornbrough sent Sir Francis Laforey in Apollo to negotiate with the Supreme Junta of the Balearic Isles. the citizens of Mallorca had declared their allegiance to Ferdinand II and wished to begin talks with the British. At the end of the year Apollo returned to Britain.
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