''Clorinde'' was a 44-gun of the
French Navy
The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in t ...
. The
Royal Navy
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captured her in 1803 and took her into service as HMS ''Clorinde''. She was sold in 1817.
French naval service
She was laid down as ''Havraise'' in 1796, and was renamed to ''Clorinde'' before her commissioning in Nantes. In 1801, she was under
Emmanuel Halgan.
In February 1802, under frigate captain
Pierre-Marie Le Bozec
Pierre-Marie Le Bozec (28 April 1769, in Île-de-Bréhat – 15 May 1830, in Île-de-Bréhat) was a French Navy officer.
Biography
Youth
Le Bozec was born to a family of sailors, and started sailing in 1780 on a merchantman. From 1782, he ...
, she was sent on station at
Santo Domingo
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, webs ...
. She was surrendered to the British at the
surrender of Cap Francais, along with . The Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name.
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Royal Navy service
The Royal Navy commissioned ''Clorinde'' at Jamaica in May 1804 under Captain Robert O'Brien. She arrived at Plymouth on 23 July.[
Between November 1807 and December 1808 ''Clorinde'' underwent repairs. In October, Captain Thomas Briggs recommissioned her. He sailed her to the East Indies on 17 February 1809.][
On 28 January 1810 ''Clorinde'' captured the French privateer ''Henri''. ''Henri'' was pierced for 14 guns, but mounted only eight 12-pounder guns. She had a crew of 57 men.
In November 1810, ''Clorinde'' was part of the squadron participating in the ]invasion of Isle de France
The Invasion of Isle de France was a complicated but successful British amphibious operation in the Indian Ocean, launched in November 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars. During the operation, a substantial military force was landed by the Royal N ...
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In September 1814 ''Clorinde'' was under the command of Captain Samuel Pechell
Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel John Brooke Pechell, 3rd Baronet CB, KCH, FRS (1 September 1785 – 3 November 1849) was a prominent British Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century. Although he served in several celebrated naval actions of ...
.[
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Fate
The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered "Clorinde, of 38 guns and 1161 tons", lying at Deptford, for sale on 30 January 1817.[Winfield (2008), p. 175.]
Citations
References
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* Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) ''French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates''. (Seaforth Publishing).
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Uranie-class frigates
Age of Sail frigates of France
1800 ships
Captured ships
Frigates of the Royal Navy