HMS Belvidera (1809)

Battle between HMS Belvidera and USS President on 23 August 1812
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Belvidera
Ordered	28 September 1808
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Laid down	December 1808
Launched	23 December 1809
Fate	Receiving ship, Portsmouth, 1860 Sold for breaking, 1906
General characteristics [1]
Type	Apollo-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	94353⁄94 (as designed)
Length	145 ft (44 m) (gundeck) 121 ft 9+3⁄8 in (37.119 m) (gundeck)
Beam	38 ft 2 in (11.63 m)
Draught	13 ft 3 in (4.04 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	264
Armament	Upper deck:26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Belvidera was a Royal Navy 36-gun Apollo-class frigate built in Deptford in 1809. She saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 and continued a busy career at sea into the middle of the 19th century. In 1846 she was reduced to harbour service, in 1860 she became a receiving ship, and she was finally disposed of in 1906.