French corvette Mignonne (1795)

Mignonne
History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameMignonne
BuilderCherbourg Dockyard; Construteurs: Pierre Ozanne and from March 1793, Jean-François Lafosse
Laid down1794
Launched15 October 1795
CapturedJune 1803
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameMignonne
NamesakeFrench: "Dainty"Mignon/mignonne at Wiktionary
Acquiredby capture June 1803
FateRan aground, December 1804
General characteristics [1]
TypeCorvette
Displacement650-719 ton (French)
Tons burthenc.564 (bm)[a]
Length
  • 35.95 m (117.9 ft) (overall)
  • 32.48 m (106.6 ft) (keel)
Beam9.74 m (32.0 ft)
Draught4.68 m (15.4 ft) (unladen)
Depth of hold4.82 m (15.8 ft)
PropulsionSail
Complement121 (British establishment)
Armament
  • French service: 16 × 18-pounder long guns
  • At capture: 10 × 18-pounder long guns[2]
  • British service: 18 × 9-pounder guns
ArmourTimber

Mignonne was an 18-gun Etna-class corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1795. She served until 1803 when the British captured her. Though she served briefly, there is no record of her actually being commissioned into the Royal Navy; she grounded and was condemned in 1804.

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2008), pp. 232 & 272.
  2. ^ Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 173.


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