HMS Pallas (1816)

1803 plan of the Apollo class
History
United Kingdom
Name	Pallas
Namesake	Athena
Ordered	19 March 1811 10 December 1813 (re-order)
Builder	Guillaume, Northam Diddams, Portsmouth (re-order)
Laid down	May 1811 May 1814 (re-order)
Launched	13 April 1816
Completed	27 April 1816
Commissioned	August 1828
Fate	Sold, 11 January 1862
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate
Tons burthen	95113⁄94 (bm)
Length	145 ft 5 in (44.3 m) (upper deck) 122 ft 2+5⁄8 in (37.3 m) (keel)
Beam	38 ft 3 in (11.7 m)
Draught	10 ft 8 in (3.3 m) (forward) 14 ft 5 in (4.4 m) (aft)
Depth of hold	13 ft 3 in (4.0 m)
Propulsion	Sails
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 Pallas was a 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Placed in ordinary when completed in 1816, Pallas was commissioned for the first time in 1828. Under Captain Adolphus FitzClarence the frigate spent time blockading the Azores before making trips to India and then Nova Scotia, conveying important passengers. The ship sailed to the Mediterranean in 1830 under the command of Captain Manley Hall Dixon, and returned early the following year with the survivors of the wreck of the Countess of Harcourt. Later in the year Pallas joined the West Indies Station, where she served until 1834 when she was paid off. In 1836 the frigate was converted into a coal hulk, in which role she served at Plymouth Dockyard until being sold in 1862.