Salsette HMS

Ship Details

Rig

Fifth-rate Frigate

Built

1805

Built In

Tonnage

901

Demise

Broken up 1874

Description

HMS Salsette (or Salcette) was a Perseverance-class fifth-rate frigate of a nominal 36 guns, launched in 1805. The East India Company built her for the Royal Navy at the Company's dockyards in Bombay.[2] She was the Navy's first teak-built ship.[1]
She served in the Indies, the Baltic, the Mediterranean and the Home Station, taking several prizes and seeing a limited amount of action. She did participate in a single-ship action in the Baltic that was notable for the other, much smaller, vessel's heroism. Salsette was laid up after the end of the Napoleonic Wars but then went on to serve in a number of support functions until the Admiralty had her broken up in 1874.

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