HMS Meleager (1806)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Meleager |
| Builder | Chatham Dockyard (M/Shipwright Robert Seppings) |
| Launched | 25 November 1806 |
| Fate | Wrecked on 30 July 1808 off Jamaica |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Fifth-rate Perseverance-class 36-gun frigate |
| Tons burthen | 874 58⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 137 ft 0 in (41.8 m) (gundeck); 113 ft 1+1⁄2 in (34.5 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 38 ft 1+1⁄2 in (11.6 m) |
| Depth of hold | 13 ft 5 in (4.1 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 260 men |
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HMS Meleager was a 36-gun fifth-rate Perseverance-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and wrecked on 30 July 1808 off Jamaica. During her brief career she captured two armed vessels and two merchantmen on the Jamaica station. She was named after Meleager, who could have been a Macedonian officer of distinction in the service of Alexander the Great, or a Meleager a character from Greek mythology.