HMS Cleopatra (1835)

Sister ship - HMS Vestal
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cleopatra
Namesake	Cleopatra VII
Ordered	28 March 1832
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	June 1832
Launched	28 April 1835
Completed	By 13 September 1835
Reclassified	Accommodation ship between 1857–1858
Fate	Ordered to be sold for breaking up on 17 February 1862
General characteristics
Class and type	26-gun Vestal-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	911 75⁄94 bm
Length	130 ft (39.6 m) (overall) 104 ft 6 in (31.9 m) (keel)
Beam	40 ft 6 in (12.3 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	240
Armament	18 × 32-pdrs Quarterdeck: 6 × 32-pdr gunnades Forecastle: 4 × 32-pdr gunnades

HMS Cleopatra was a 26-gun Vestal-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dock and launched on 28 April 1835. She was to have been launched in July 1834 and fitted thereafter.^[1] Her complement was 152 officers and men, 33 boys, and 25 marines. She was broken up in February 1862.^[2]

Cleopatra was the second of three Vestal-class ships built between 1833 and 1836. The first was HMS Vestal and the third HMS Carysfort. She was acknowledged as a good handling fast boat during her early voyages.^[3]