Euryalus
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Euryalus |
Ordered | 16 August 1800 |
Builder | Balthazar & Edward Adams, Bucklers Hard |
Laid down | October 1801 |
Launched | 6 June 1803 |
Commissioned | June 1803 |
Decommissioned | 1825 |
Reclassified | Prison hulk, 1825 |
Honours and awards |
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Fate | Broken up, 1860 |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Apollo-class frigate |
Tons burthen | 94616⁄94 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 38 ft 2+1⁄4 in (11.6 m) |
Complement | 264 men |
Armament |
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HMS Euryalus was a Royal Navy 36-gun Apollo-class frigate that saw service in the Battle of Trafalgar and the War of 1812. During her career she was commanded by three prominent naval personalities of the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period: Henry Blackwood, George Dundas and Charles Napier. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars she continued on active service for a number of years, before spending more than two decades as a prison hulk. She ended her career in Gibraltar where, in 1860, she was sold for breaking up.