French corvette Bacchante (1795)

History
France
Name	Bacchante
Builder	Pierre, Jacques, & Nicolas Fortier, Honfleur
Laid down	October 1794
Launched	29 December 1795
Completed	1796
Captured	June 1803
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Bachante
Acquired	June 1803 by capture
Commissioned	November 1803
Fate	Sold 1809
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Serpente-class corvette
Tons burthen	642 (exact) (bm)
Length	131 ft 6 in (40.1 m) (overall) 111 ft 11+1⁄8 in (34.1 m) (keel)
Beam	32 ft 10+1⁄5 in (10.0 m)
Depth of hold	14 ft 8+3⁄4 in (4.489 m)
Complement	At capture: 200 British service: 175
Armament	Originally: 18 × 18-pounder guns 1803: 18 × 12-pounder guns British service: 18 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 12-pounder bow chasers

The French corvette Bacchante was launched in 1795 as one of the four Serpente-class corvettes built for the French Navy. She served for almost two years as a privateer, before returning to the service of the French Navy. After HMS Endymion captured her in 1803, the Royal Navy took her in under her existing name as a 20-gun post ship. Bacchante served in the West Indies, where she captured several armed Spanish and French vessels before the Navy sold her in 1809.