HMS Stag (1812)

1803 plan of the Apollo class
History
United Kingdom
Name	Stag
Namesake	Stag
Ordered	17 October 1810
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	January 1811
Launched	26 September 1812
Completed	November 1812
Commissioned	6 August 1812
Fate	Broken up, 20 September 1821
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate
Tons burthen	94730⁄94 (bm)
Length	145 ft (44.2 m) (upper deck) 121 ft 8+3⁄4 in (37.1 m) (keel)
Beam	38 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 hold	13 ft 3+1⁄2 in (4.1 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 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.