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HMS ''Castor'' was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. ''Castor'' was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 2 May 1832. She was one of a two ship class of frigates, built to an 1828 design by Sir Robert Seppings, and derived from the earlier ''Stag'' class. The ''Castor'' class had a further of beam to mount the heavier ordnance. ''Castor'' cost a total of £38,292, to be fitted for sea. Her first captain was Lord John Hay, and by September 1832 ''Castor'' was at Lisbon. On 27 August 1834 she collided with the Revenue Cutter Cameleon off South Foreland, Dover, sinking Cameleon with the loss of most of its crew. This incident led to the Court Martial of officers and crew of HMS Castor on 6 September 1834 in Plymouth. 〔http://royalnavyreenactment.co.uk/index.cgi/HMSCastor〕 〔http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/C/00866.html〕 The officers were acquitted but the lieutenant of the watch was dismissed from the service, it having been admitted and proven that a proper watch had not been kept.〔http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9y0tAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA710#v=onepage&q&f=false Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for 1834, Volume 1, Page 710〕 She spent a period of time in the Mediterranean, before being decommissioned at Chatham in 1842. She spent periods in the East Indies and the Cape of Good Hope, with further periods laid up at Chatham. She came to the assistance of HM Troopship ''Birkenhead'', when the ''Birkenhead'' was wrecked on 26 February 1852.〔''A Deathless Story'' by A C Addison and W H M Matthews ISBN 1-84342-057-0〕 She was used as a training ship from January 1860, and was a Royal Naval Reserve training ship at North Shields from April 1862, having been reduced to 22 guns. She was sold at Sheerness on 25 August 1902 for breaking up at Castle & Sons breakers yard in Woolwich.〔page 121 ''A Deathless Story'' by A C Addison and W H M Matthews ISBN 1-84342-057-0〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Castor (1832)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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