Maritime History
HMS Saldanha (1809)
HMS Saldanha was a 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned in April 1810 and spent her entire career serving on the Irish Station, including capturing a fast-sailing French privateer on 11 October 1811. In the evening of 4 December that year, Saldanha was serving off Lough Swilly when she was caught in a storm. Last seen sailing off Fanad Head, the ship was wrecked in a nearby bay, with every person on board being killed, and the only survivors being a parrot and a dog. Thomas Sheridan memorialised the wreck in his poem The Loss of the Saldanha.
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See also
- ▸France–Japan relations (19th century)
- ▸List of tallest buildings in the European Union
- ▸Kollam–Thiruvananthapuram trunk line
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