HMS Salsette (1805)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Salsette
Ordered	12 May 1802
Builder	Bombay Dockyard, M/Shipwright Jamsetjee Bomanjee[1]
Laid down	19 July 1803
Launched	17 January 1805
Fate	Broken up 20 March 1874
General characteristics [2]
Class and type	Perseverance-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	90182⁄94 (bm)
Length	137 ft 0 in (41.8 m) (overall) 112 ft 11 in (34.4 m) (keel)
Beam	38 ft 9 in (11.8 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 7 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	260
Armament	UD:26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc:2 × 9-pounder bow guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Salsette (or Salcette) was a Perseverance-class fifth-rate frigate of a nominal 36 guns, launched in 1805. The East India Company built her for the Royal Navy at the company's dockyards in Bombay.^[2] She was the Navy's first teak-built ship.^[1]

She served in the Indies, the Baltic, the Mediterranean and the Home Station, taking several prizes and seeing a limited amount of action. She did participate in a single-ship action in the Baltic that was notable for the other, much smaller, vessel's heroism. Salsette was laid up after the end of the Napoleonic Wars but then went on to serve in a number of support functions until the Admiralty had her broken up in 1874.