HMS Saturn was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 November 1786 at Northam.
In 1801 Capt. Boyles she served in the Channel Fleet. Then under Capt. Robert Lambert she sailed with Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's expedition to the Baltic. She was present at the Battle of Copenhagen as part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve.
Saturn was reduced to a 58-gun ship in 1813 at the Plymouth dockyards in preparation for service in the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States. On 14 February 1814, under Capt. James Nash, the Saturn sailed for Bermuda then she was on the Halifax station. She then served as part of the blockading-squadron off New York until the War of 1812 ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. From January 1815 Capt. Thomas Brown, assumed command until in April 1815 Capt. Nash was back in command.
From 1825 Saturn was on harbour service at Milford Haven. She was broken up in 1868. One of the ships later paymaster's known as Joseph Singleton who died October 22 1865 aged 40 is buried in the Pembroke Dock Military Cemitery near the Milford Haven waterway.
Famous quotes containing the word saturn:
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)