History
Pallas was one of the seven Thames class frigates ordered for the fleet in early 1804. Her keel was laid at Plymouth Dockyard in June 1804 and she was launched on the afternoon of 17 November the same year along with her sister-ship HMS Circe. Pallas entered service in January 1805, under the command of Lord Cochrane and proceeded to cruise in the vicinity of the Azores. Here, Pallas captured three Spanish merchant ships and a Spanish 14-gun privateer. Cochrane was given orders to cruise off the Normandy coast in 1806. During the evening of 5 April 1806, Cochrane sailed the Pallas into the Gironde estuary and captured the French 14-gun corvette Tapageuse, and drove ashore and wrecked three other corvettes.
In 1807, command passed to George Miller. Later that year she passed onto George Cadogan and took part in the evacuation of the British army from Walcheren. In 1808, George Francis Seymour took command and operated in the English Channel as part of the Channel Fleet. In 1810, she was ordered to the North Sea and was given a cruise off the coast of Norway where she captured four Danish privateer cutters.
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