HMS Galatea (1810)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Galatea
Ordered	12 May 1809
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	August 1809
Launched	31 August 1810
Commissioned	September 1810
Reclassified	Used as a coal hulk from August 1836
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Off Tamatave 20 May 1811"
Fate	Broken up in 1849
General characteristics as built
Class and type	36-gun Apollo-class frigate
Tons burthen	94730⁄94 (bm)
Length	145 ft (44.2 m) (gundeck) 121 ft 8+3⁄4 in (37.1 m) (keel)
Beam	38 ft 3 in (11.7 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 3+1⁄2 in (4.1 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	264
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

HMS Galatea was an Apollo-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. The frigate was built at Deptford Dockyard, London, England and launched on 31 August 1810. In 1811 she participated in the Battle of Tamatave, which battle confirmed British dominance of the seas east of the Cape of Good Hope for the rest of the Napoleonic Wars. She was hulked in 1836 and broken up in 1849.