High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Apollo, the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a Fifth Rate frigate of 36 guns. She was the name ship of the Apollo class frigates. Apollo was launched in 1799 and wrecked with heavy loss of life in 1804. Apollo was built at Deptford Wharf in 1799, taking the name Apollo from a fifth-rate of the same name which had been wrecked off Holland in January. She was commissioned in October under Captain Peter Halkett — who had commanded the previous Apollo when she was lost — and was posted to the West Indies, cruising there and escorting convoys to Britain.

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