- HMS Galatea (1810)
HMS "Galatea" was a 36-gun
fifth rate frigate of theRoyal Navy ."Galatea" was built at
Deptford ,London ,England and launched on31 August 1810 . From 1825 to 1829 she was commanded by Captain Charles Sullivan, on the coasts of Portugal and South America. From8 January 1829 to28 January 1832 she was commanded by Captain Charles Napier who, in a letter written shortly after his appointment, described her as 'a ship that has the worst reputation in the Navy'. [Major-General Edward Elers Napier, "The Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir Charles Napier K.C.B." (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1862), p. 132.] Napier fitted her with an experimental system of his own design of paddles, driven by winches on the main deck that were worked by a division of the crew, which were found useful for manouvering at speeds of up to 3 knots in windless conditions. [Ibid., p. 131.] Twice during this period she cruised to the Caribbean, calling atJamaica ,Havana ,Cuba and Tampico,Mexico , and in mid-1831 she was engaged in guarding British interests in theAzores . She was hulked in 1836, moved as a coal hulk to Jamaica in 1840, and broken up in 1849.References
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