HMS Castor" was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy . Castor was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 2 May 1832. She was one of a two ship class of frigates, built to an 1828 design by Sir Robert Seppings, and derived from the earlier Stag class . The Castor class had a further of beam to mount the heavier ordnance. Castor cost a total of £38,292, to be fitted for sea. Her first captain was Lord John Hay , and by September 1832 Castor was at Lisbon . She spent a period of time in the Mediterranean, before being decommissioned at Chatham in 1842. She spent periods in the East Indies and the Cape of Good Hope , with further periods laid up at Chatham. She came to the assistance of HM Troopship Birkenhead , when the Birkenhead was wrecked on 26 February 1852. She was used as a training ship from January 1860, and was a Royal Naval Reserve training ship at North Shieldsfrom April 1862, having been reduced to 22 guns. She was sold at Sheerness on 25 August 1902 for breaking up at Castle & Sons breakers yard in Woolwich .
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