HMS Saldanha

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HMS Saldanha was a 36 gun frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1809.

Saldanha was shipwrecked in Lough Swilly, Donegal in a gale on the night of 4 December 1811. There were no survivors out of the estimated 253 aboard. (The ship's complement was 274 men, and 21 are known to have been off the ship at the time.)

[edit] See also

• List of British sail frigates
• List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll

[edit] Sources

• Terence Grocott - Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras (1997)