French frigate Caroline

Hortense, sister-ship of Caroline
History
France
Name	Caroline
Namesake	Caroline Bonaparte
Ordered	24 April 1804
Builder	Antwerp shipyard (Constructeur: Anne-Jean-Louis Leharivel-Durocher) to plans by Sané
Laid down	May 1804
Launched	15 August 1806
Captured	21 September 1809
United Kingdom
Name	Bourbonaise[1]
Acquired	21 September 1809
Fate	Sold in 1817
General characteristics [2][3]
Displacement	1,390 tons (French)
Tons burthen	1,078 10⁄94 (bm)
Length	151 ft 6 in (46.18 m) (overall) 127 ft 4+7⁄8 in (38.833 m) (keel)
Beam	39 ft 10+5⁄8 in (12.157 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 2 in (3.71 m)
Complement	French service: 360 British service: 300 (later 315)
Armament	At capture UD: 28 × long 18-pounder guns Spar deck: 10 × long 8-pounder guns + 8 × 36-pounder carronades British service UD: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 14 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

Caroline was a 40-gun Hortense-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1806. She captured several small British vessels in 1807, including a 14-gun privateer. She was ordered to the Indian Ocean in 1808 for commerce raiding, arriving in 1809. During the subsequent Mauritius campaign, Caroline captured two East Indiamen and their valuable cargoes of trade goods in the action of 31 May 1809.

The British captured Caroline at Île Bourbon during the Raid on Saint Paul in September 1809, renaming her HMS Bourbonaise as they already had a ship named Caroline in service. Bourbonaise sailed back to Plymouth where she was held in ordinary until 1816, when she was sold for breaking up.