HMS Stag (1812)

1803 plan of the Apollo class
History
United Kingdom
NameStag
NamesakeStag
Ordered17 October 1810
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid downJanuary 1811
Launched26 September 1812
CompletedNovember 1812
Commissioned6 August 1812
FateBroken up, 20 September 1821
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeFifth-rate Apollo-class frigate
Tons burthen9473094 (bm)
Length
Beam38 ft 3 in (11.7 m)
Draught
  • 10 ft 2 in (3.1 m) (forward)
  • 13 ft 11 in (4.2 m) (aft)
Depth of hold13 ft 3+12 in (4.1 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement264
Armament

HMS Stag was a 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Commanded by Captain Phipps Hornby for almost her entire career, Stag began her service in the English Channel, capturing two ships in 1813. Mid-way through the year the frigate was sent to join the Cape of Good Hope Station, where she stayed until November 1814. At the Cape Stag formed part of the search for the wreck of the merchant ship William Pitt in Algoa Bay, and then spent time surveying the Bird Islands, of which one was subsequently named after the ship. After returning from the Cape, Stag was laid up at Plymouth Dockyard. She was moved to Sheerness Dockyard in 1821, where after an aborted refit the frigate was broken up.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 161.