HMS Galatea (1810)
H.M. Frigate Galatea, 38 Guns off the Needles, Isle Of Wight, by Thomas Whitcombe
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| Name: | HMS Galatea |
| Ordered: | 12 May 1809 |
| Builder: | Deptford Dockyard |
| Laid down: | August 1809 |
| Launched: | 31 August 1810 |
| Commissioned: | September 1810 |
| Reclassified: | Used as a coal hulk from August 1836 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Off Tamatave 20 May 1811" |
| Fate: | Broken up in 1849 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Class and type: | 36-gun Apollo-class frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 947 30⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 38 ft 3 in (11.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 3 1⁄2 in (4.1 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 264 |
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HMS Galatea was an Apollo-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. The frigate was built at Deptford Dockyard, London, England and launched on 31 August 1810. In 1811 she participated in the Battle of Tamatave, which battle confirmed British dominance of the seas east of the Cape of Good Hope for the rest of the Napoleonic Wars. She was hulked in 1836 and broken up in 1849.
Galatea was commissioned in September 1810 under Captain Woodley Losack, who would remain her captain until 1815. He sailed her to the Cape of Good Hope on 31 December 1810.
On 6 May 1811, a French squadron of frigates under the command of Commodore François Roquebert in Renommée approached Grand Port, not realizing that Isle de France (now Mauritius) had fallen to the British. The French squadron escaped an encounter with an equivalent British squadron under Captain Charles Marsh Schomberg of Astraea.
Between 7 and 9 May the frigates Galatea and Phoebe, under James Hillyar, and the brig-sloop Racehorse, sighted the French 40-gun frigates Renommée, Clorinde and Néréide off the Isle de France, whilst Astraea was lying in Port Louis.
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