HMS Ethalion (1802)

HMS Ethalion was a Royal Navy 36-gun frigate, launched in 1802 at Woolwich Dockyard.

Service
Ethalion entered service in 1803 under Captain Charles Stuart, operating in the North Sea. In May 1804 she captured the 16-gun Dutch brig Union off Bergen. In 1807, command passed to William Charles Fahie, who took Ethalion to the West Indies, where she participated in the invasion of Martinique in 1809 under Captain Thomas John Cochrane and then a distant part in the Action of 14–17 April 1809.

In 1810, Ethalion briefly paid off, before returning to service in 1811 off Lisbon under Captain Heywood and then in the Baltic Sea. On 12 April 1812, Ethalion and HMS Clio (1807) captured the Opsloe.

In 1814 she was operating under Captain William Hugh Dobbie off the Irish Coast and in 1816 was placed in reserve at Woolwich.

Fate
In 1823 Ethalion was converted to a hospital ship, which she remained until becoming a breakwater in the 1860s. She was eventually broken up in 1877.