HMS Hyperion (1807)

HMS Hyperion was a 32-gun frigate of the Royal Navy. Copied from the design of the French frigate Magicienne, she was commissioned in 1808. Under the command of Thomas Brodie she served in the Mediterranean Sea for two years before moving to the Jamaica Station. In February 1811, an incident at Gonaïves resulted in Haitians killing three members of Hyperion's crew, and Brodie died of an illness probably caught there. Now commanded by William Pryce Cumby, Hyperion served on the Newfoundland Station on fishery protection duties in 1812, returning in the following year to serve in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay, where she captured the American privateer Rattlesnake on 3 June 1814.

Recommissioned after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Hyperion briefly served off Portsmouth as an escort to George, Prince Regent, before in 1820 she was transferred to the South America Station to protect trade impacted by the Chilean War of Independence. Hyperion was present at Callao when the Spanish frigate Esmeralda was captured by Chile on 5 November. Hyperion's captain, Thomas Searle, fostered such a negative relationship with the Chilean naval commander Lord Cochrane that soon afterwards the frigate was ordered back to Britain. Under James Lillicrap Hyperion then joined the Cape of Good Hope Station in 1821, moving to combat piracy off Cuba in the following year. The ship returned to Britain in 1824 and was then used as a base for anti-smuggling operations at Newhaven from 1825 to 1831 before being broken up in 1833.