HMS Owen Glendower (1808)
HMS Owen Glendower, c. 1820s, from the collection of the Royal Naval Museum.
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| Name: | HMS Owen Glendower |
| Ordered: | 1 October 1806 |
| Laid down: | January 1807 |
| Launched: | 19 November 1808 |
| Fate: | Sold in 1884 |
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| Class and type: | 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo class frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 951 3⁄95(bm) |
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| Beam: | 38 ft 3 1⁄2 in (11.671 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 285 |
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HMS Owen Glendower (or Owen Glendour) was a Royal Navy 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo class frigate launched in 1808 and disposed of in 1884. In between she was instrumental in the seizure of the Danish island of Anholt, captured prizes in the Channel during the Napoleonic Wars, sailed to the East Indies and South America, participated in the suppression of the slave trade, and served as a prison hulk in Gibraltar before she was sold in 1884.
She was named for "Owen Glendower", Shakespeare’s Anglicization of the Welsh Owain Glyndŵr (c.1359-c.1416), the last Welsh Prince of Wales, and a leader of the Welsh against the English. She was the only Royal Navy vessel to bear that name.
Captain William Selby, late of Cerberus, took command of Owen Glendower in January 1809.
Early in May 1809, Vice-admiral Sir James Saumarez, the British commander-in-chief in the Baltic, sent a squadron, consisting of the 64-gun third rate Standard, Owen Glendower, three sloops (Avenger, Ranger and Rose), and the gun-brig Snipe. The commander of the squadron was Captain Aiskew Paffard Hollis, captain of Standard. Their objective was to capture the Danish island of Anholt. Anholt was small and essentially barren; its significance rested in the lighthouse that stood on its easternmost point. The Danes had extinguished it at the outbreak of hostilities between Britain and Denmark; the point of capturing the island was to restore the lighthouse to its function to assist British men-of-war and merchantmen in the Kattegat.
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