HMS Amelia (1796)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Amelia.
Proserpine was a 38-gun Hébé-class frigate of the French Navy launched in 1785 that HMS Dryad captured on 13 June 1796. The Admiralty commissioned Proserpine into the Royal Navy as the fifth rate, HMS Amelia. She spent 20 years in the Royal Navy, participating in numerous actions in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, capturing a number of prizes, and serving on anti-smuggling and anti-slavery patrols. Her most notable action was her intense and bloody, but inconclusive, fight in 1813 with the French frigate Aréthuse. Amelia was broken up in December 1816.
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HMS Amelia Chasing the French frigate Aréthuse. Painted in 1852 by John Christian Schetky | |
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France | |
Name | Proserpine |
Builder | Brest, France |
Laid down | December 1784[1] |
Launched | 25 June 1785 |
Commissioned | August 1785 |
Fate | Captured by the Royal Navy on 13 June 1796 |
Great Britain | |
Acquired | 13 June 1796 by capture |
Commissioned | August 1797 |
Renamed | Renamed HMS Amelia on capture |
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Fate | Broken up in December 1816 |
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Class and type | Hébé-class frigate |
Tons burthen | 1,05935⁄94 (bm) |
Length | 151 ft 4 in (46.1 m) (overall); 126 ft 1+3⁄8 in (38.4 m) |
Beam | 39 ft 8+7⁄8 in (12.1 m) |
Depth of hold | 12 ft 6+1⁄2 in (3.8 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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