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From 1803 she made two voyages as a Liverpool-based slave ship. The French captured her in port at Dominica in 1805. Apollo (1812 EIC ship) was launched at Hull. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as a regular ship. She continued to trade with India under licence from the EIC until she was wrecked near Cape Town in ...
Apollo, a British-built Austrian passenger-cargo ship, scrapped in 1908 [4] Apollo, a German cargo ship seized as prize in 1945 and renamed Empire Taff; Apollo, the former British ferry and wartime landing ship Royal Scotsman, repurposed in the 1960s as founding flagship of the Sea Org of the Church of Scientology
HMS Apollo, the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of a nominal 36 guns. She was the name ship of the Apollo -class frigates . Apollo was launched in 1799, and wrecked with heavy loss of life in 1804.
On 28 December 1821 Apollo grounded on Margate Sand for several hours as she was on her way to Madras. A boat from Margate got her off and provided her with an anchor. She had not suffered material damage. [8] Still, she returned to the Thames as a consequence of the grounding. [9] Captain George Tennant sailed for Madras on 27 February 1822. [10]
The Apollo-class sailing frigates were a series of twenty-seven ships that the British Admiralty commissioned be built to a 1798 design by Sir William Rule. Twenty-five served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, two being launched too late. Of the 25 ships that served during the Napoleonic Wars, only one was lost to enemy action.
HMS Sirius was an Apollo-class cruiser of the British Royal Navy which served from 1892 to 1918 in various colonial posts such as the South and West African coastlines and off the British Isles as a hastily converted minelayer during the First World War.
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