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

• ▸Cijin District
• ▸4-6-0
• ▸Battle of Salamis

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