HMS Euryalus (1803)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Euryalus.

Euryalus
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Euryalus
Ordered16 August 1800
BuilderBalthazar & Edward Adams, Bucklers Hard
Laid downOctober 1801
Launched6 June 1803
CommissionedJune 1803
Decommissioned1825
ReclassifiedPrison hulk, 1825
Honours and
awards
FateBroken up, 1860
General characteristics [3]
Class and typeApollo-class frigate
Tons burthen94616⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • Overall:145 ft 2 in (44.2 m)
  • Keel:121 ft 11+3⁄4 in (37.2 m)
Beam38 ft 2+1⁄4 in (11.6 m)
Complement264 men
Armament
  • Upper deck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 32-pounder carronades
Plan of the Euryalus dated 1803

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.

  1. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 240.
  2. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 245.
  3. ^ Winfield (2008), pp. 155–156.