HMS Horatio was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate Lively-class frigate, built out of fir timbers at the yard of George Parsons in Bursledon.
Drawing of Horatio after repair in 1819
The Lively class were a successful class of sixteen British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates.
HMS Macedonian (left) of the Lively class, painting of its engagement with USS United States, 1812, by Thomas Birch