HMS Meleager (1785)

HMS Meleager (1785)

HMS Meleager was a 32 gun frigate built in 1785 by Greaves and Nickolson at the Quarry House yard in Frindsbury, Kent, England. She was named after Meleager, who could have been a Macedonian officer of distinction in the service of Alexander the Great, or Meleager, a character from Greek mythology.