HMS Curacoa (1809)

HMS Curacoa original inboard profile plan
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Curacoa
Ordered	1 October 1806
Builder	Robert Guillaume
Cost	£18,364
Laid down	January 1808
Launched	23 September 1809
Commissioned	October 1809
Fate	Broken up
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Apollo-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	952 87⁄94 (bm)
Length	145 ft 2 in (44.2 m) (gun deck) 121 ft 11 in (37.2 m) (keel)
Beam	38 ft 4 in (11.7 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 4 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Fully Rigged Ship
Complement	264
Armament	Gun deck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Curacoa was a fifth-rate 36-gun sailing frigate of the Royal Navy. Ordered in October 1806 and launched in September 1809, she was one of a new series of Apollo-class frigates designed by Sir William Rule in 1798. Curacoa was 952 87⁄94 tons (bm), armed with a main battery of twenty-six 18 pounders (8.2 kilograms) and carried a complement of 264 men when fully manned.

First commissioned by Captain John Tower, who commanded her through her entire service, Curacoa spent two years on duty around the Channel Islands before being posted to the Mediterranean in 1811, first off the east coast of Italy and then in the Balearic Sea. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Curacoa was converted to a 24-gun sixth-rate corvette and sent to South America to assist with the suppression of the slave trade. She was broken up in March 1849.