Brazilian frigate Nichteroy (1823)

Nichteroy was a fifth-rate frigate of the Imperial Brazilian Navy, having been built as a British vessel, acquired by Portugal and later joining the Brazilian cause during the Brazilian War of Independence.

History
The ship took part in the naval battle off Salvador, where she sailed under the English-born Frigate Captain John Taylor and became notorious for chasing the fleeing Portuguese fleet across the Atlantic to the mouth of the river Tagus. Later, the vessel sailed under Captain of Sea-and-War James Norton in the Cisplatine War, being Norton's flagship in the battle of Lara-Quilmes, where she took William Brown's frigate 25 de Mayo out of action, which eventually led to its sinking.

The vessel was officially decommissioned in 1836, after years of serving as a structure in the port of Rio de Janeiro.