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HMS ''Galatea'' was an ''Apollo''-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. The frigate was built at Deptford Dockyard, London, England and launched on 31 August 1810. In 1811 she participated in the Battle of Tamatave, which battle confirmed British dominance of the seas east of the Cape of Good Hope for the rest of the Napoleonic Wars. She was hulked in 1836 and broken up in 1849. ==Napoleonic Wars== ''Galatea'' was commissioned in September 1810 under Captain Woodley Losack, who would remain her captain until 1815. He sailed her to the Cape of Good Hope on 31 December 1810.〔 On 6 May 1811, a French squadron of frigates under the command of Commodore François Roquebert in ''Renommée'' approached Grand Port, not realizing that Isle de France (now Mauritius) had fallen to the British. The French squadron escaped an encounter with an equivalent British squadron under Captain Charles Marsh Schomberg of .〔 Between 7 and 9 May the frigates ''Galatea'' and , under James Hillyar, and the brig-sloop , sighted the French 40-gun frigates ''Renommée'', ''Clorinde'' and ''Néréide'' off the Isle de France, whilst ''Astraea'' was lying in Port Louis.〔 On 14 May ''Astraea'', ''Phoebe'', ''Galatea'', and ''Racehorse'' sailed from Port Louis for Tamatave, Madagascar and arrived on the 20th. The British squadron sighted the French squadron and made chase. A severe engagement, the Battle of Tamatave, ensued. During the battle, ''Renommée'' and ''Clorinde'' badly battered ''Galatea'', with the result that she lost 16 men killed and 46 wounded - the largest number of casualties of any vessel in the squadron. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Off Tamatave 20 May 1811" to all surviving claimants from the action. The British captured ''Renommée''. Roquebert had sacrificed his flagship and ultimately his life to allow the frigates ''Clorinde'' and the badly damaged ''Néréide'' to escape. Five days later, Schomberg's squadron rediscovered ''Néréide'' at Tamatave. The British persuaded the town's commander to surrender the town and ''Néréide'' without any further fight.〔 The British took ''Néréide'' as and ''Renommée'' as . The battle was the last action of the Mauritius campaign. Thereafter ''Galatea'' served primarily, and relatively uneventfully, as a convoy escort for the rest of war. ''Galatea'' participated in the War of 1812. On 31 October 1812 she escaped from the USS ''President'' and the USS ''Congress''. ''Galatea'' was in company with when they recaptured the brig ''Fermina'' on 18 April 1813. On 1 June 1813 she sailed for Lisbon.〔 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 Galatea (1810)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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