HMS Apollo (1805)

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For other ships of the same name, see HMS Apollo.

HMS Apollo, the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of 38 guns launched in 1805 and broken up in 1856.

In 1806 she operated off southern Italy, under Captain Fellowes, and in 1807 took part in the attack on Alexandria. In 1808, under Captain Taylor, she raided French convoys in the western Mediterranean, returning home at the end of the year. In 1811 she returned to the Mediterranean, fighting a large number of small-scale actions and raiding various French-held islands. However, Captain Taylor was drowned in early 1814 when his boat capsized, and Apollo returned to England. She was placed in ordinary at Portsmouth the following year.

During the First Opium War she served as a troopship.

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