HMS Malacca (1809)

Penang drawing dated 1809
History
United Kingdom
Name	Penang
Ordered	19 February 1807
Builder	Prince of Wales Island
Laid down	February 1808
Launched	6 March 1809
Renamed	Malacca (1808)
Fate	Broken up 1816
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Apollo-class frigate
Tons burthen	989 (bm)
Length	151 ft 11 in (46.3 m) (gundeck); 124 ft 4+5⁄8 in (37.9 m) (keel)
Beam	38 ft 8 in (11.79 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 2 in (4.01 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	264
Armament	UD: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Malacca was an Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy that the Admiralty ordered from the British East India Company to be built at Prince of Wales Island (Penang), under the name Penang. Prior to her launch in 1809 the Admiralty changed her name to Malacca, but she sailed to England in 1810 as Penang. The Navy commissioned her as Malacca in 1810 and sent her out to the East Indies. She had a brief career there, participating in one small punitive expedition, before she was paid-off in 1815 and broken up in 1816.