HMS Curacoa (1809)

HMS Curacoa was a fifth-rate 36-gun sailing frigate of the Royal Navy. Ordered in October 1806 and launched in September 1809, she was one of a new series of Apollo-class frigates designed by Sir William Rule in 1798. Curacoa was 952 87⁄94 tons (bm), armed with a main battery of twenty-six 18 pounders (8.2 kilograms) and carried a complement of 264 men when fully manned.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Curacoa.

HMS Curacoa original inboard profile plan
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Curacoa
Ordered1 October 1806
BuilderRobert Guillaume
Cost£18,364
Laid downJanuary 1808
Launched23 September 1809
CommissionedOctober 1809
FateBroken up
General characteristics
Class and typeApollo-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen952 87⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 145 ft 2 in (44.2 m) (gun deck)
  • 121 ft 11 in (37.2 m) (keel)
Beam38 ft 4 in (11.7 m)
Depth of hold13 ft 4 in (4.1 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFully Rigged Ship
Complement264
Armament
  • Gun deck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 32-pounder carronades

First commissioned by Captain John Tower, who commanded her through her entire service, Curacoa spent two years on duty around the Channel Islands before being posted to the Mediterranean in 1811, first off the east coast of Italy and then in the Balearic Sea. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Curacoa was converted to a 24-gun sixth-rate corvette and sent to South America to assist with the suppression of the slave trade. She was broken up in March 1849.

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