HMS Ethalion (1802)
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| Name: | HMS Ethalion |
| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Launched: | 29 July 1802 |
| Commissioned: | 1803 |
| Decommissioned: | 1816 |
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| Fate: | Broken up, 1877 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Fifth rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 996 tons bm |
| Armament: | 36 guns |
HMS Ethalion was a Royal Navy 36-gun frigate, launched in 1802 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was eventually broken up in 1877.
Ethalion entered service in 1803 under Captain Charles Stuart, operating in the North Sea. In May 1804 she captured the 16-gun Dutch brig Union off Bergen. In 1807, command passed to William Charles Fahie, who took Ethalion to the West Indies.
In December 1807 Ethalion was part of the squadron under Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane that captured the Danish islands of St Thomas on 22 December and Santa Cruz on 25 December. The Danes did not resist and the invasion was bloodless.
On 26 October 1808 Ethalion captured Washington.
Ethalion also participated in the invasion of Martinique in 1809 under Captain Thomas John Cochrane.
In April 1809, a strong French squadron arrived at the Îles des Saintes, south of Guadeloupe. There they were blockaded until 14 April, when a British force under Major-General Frederick Maitland and Captain Philip Beaver in Acasta, invaded and captured the islands.Ethalion played a distant part in the Action of 14–17 April 1809.
Even so, she was among the naval vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture of the islands.
In 1810, Ethalion briefly paid off, before returning to service in 1811 off Lisbon under Captain Heywood and then in the Baltic Sea. On 12 April 1812, Ethalion and Clio captured the Opsloe.
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