HMS Acteon (1805)

History
France
Name	Actéon,
Ordered	21 February 1803 at Bayonne[1][2]
Builder	Rolland, Rochefort Dockyard[1][2]
Laid down	24 June 1803[1][2]
Launched	10 July 1804[1][2]
Captured	27 September 1805
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Acteon
Acquired	1805, by capture
Fate	Broken up, 1816
General characteristics [3][1]
Class and type	Lynx-class brig
Tons burthen	33468⁄94 (bm)
Length	Overall:94 ft 0 in (28.7 m) Keel:63 ft 6+5⁄8 in (19.4 m)
Beam	29 ft 3 in (8.9 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 1 in (2.5 m)
Sail plan	Brig
Complement	French:84[1] 126 at capture British:121
Armament	French:16 × 6-pounder guns[1] British:14 × 24-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Acteon (or Actaeon), was the brig Actéon, launched in France in 1804 as the second of the two-ship Lynx-class. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1805 but laid her up. The Navy finally commissioned her in 1809. She was at the British invasion of Île de France and later served in the Channel, the North Sea, the Baltic, and the Chesapeake. She was broken up in 1816.