![]() 1803 plan of the Apollo class
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Name | Pallas |
Namesake | Athena |
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Laid down |
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Launched | 13 April 1816 |
Completed | 27 April 1816 |
Commissioned | August 1828 |
Fate | Sold, 11 January 1862 |
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Class and type | Fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate |
Tons burthen | 95113⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 38 ft 3 in (11.7 m) |
Draught |
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Depth of hold | 13 ft 3 in (4.0 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Complement | 264 |
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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.