Name HMS Doris Laid down 25 April 1806 Construction started 25 April 1806 Length 42 m | Ordered 5 June 1803 Fate Sold in April 1829. Launched 24 March 1807 Builder Bombay Dockyard | |
Renamed Launched as Salsette
Renamed Pitt on 26 August 1807
Renamed HMS Doris on 3 April 1808 Class and type 36-gun fifth-rate frigate | ||
HMS Doris was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy that served between 1808 and 1829. She was the second ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the mythical Greek sea nymphe Doris.
Doris was built for the Royal Navy in the East India Company Dockyard in Bombay in 1807. She was launched as Salsette, and was renamed locally as Pitt later that year. However, because the Royal Navy already had an HMS Pitt in service, the Admiralty renamed her again as HMS Doris.
HMS Doris initially saw service in the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea. Doris and Psyche captured in the China Sea an American ship named Rebecca. They brought her into Bombay where the new Vice admiralty court condemned her. Her cargo of 4,000 bags of Batavian sugar and 13,710 pieces of sapan-wood were auctioned on 7 March 1810. Then on 10 March Rebecca, of 600 tons burthen, teak-built at Pegu, too was auctioned off.
Towards the end of 1810 Doris was involved in the Mauritius campaign.
In 1811 she participated in the invasion of Java.
Put in reserve in 1815, she was recommissioned in 1821 and served two tours of duty on the South America station during the Chilean and Brazilian wars of independence and the Brazil-Argentine war 1826-8.
During her 21 years in the Royal Navy she had eight captains. One of them was Barrington Reynolds, who commanded her for a short period in 1812, between his commands of HMS Sir Francis Drake and HMS Bucephalus. Another was Thomas Graham, who died en route to Chile in 1822, with his wife, the travel writer Maria Graham, on board.
By the late 1820s, decayed timbers in her bow made her unfit for further service, and she was sold at Valparaiso in April 1829.