HMS Belle Poule (1806)

Capture of the 'Gypsy', 30 April 1812: left to right: HMS Belle Poule, Gypsy, and HMS Hermes, by Thomas Buttersworth
History
France
Name	Belle Poule
Laid down	June 1801
Launched	17 April 1802
Fate	Captured by Royal Navy, 13 March 1806
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Belle Poule
Acquired	Captured on 13 March 1806
Reclassified	Troopship in 1814 Prison ship in 1815
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "14 Dec. Boat Service 1814"[1]
Fate	Sold on 11 June 1816
General characteristics [2]
Class and type	40-gun Virginie-class frigate; re-rated as 38-gun fifth rate after capture
Tons burthen	107664⁄94 (bm)
Length	156 ft 8 in (47.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam	39 ft 11 in (12.2 m)
Draught	13 ft 4 in (4.1 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 4 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	284 (later 315)
Armament	UD: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 14 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns & 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Belle Poule was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate, formerly Belle Poule, a Virginie-class frigate of the French Navy that had been built by the Crucy family's shipyard at Basse-Indre to a design by Jacques-Noël Sané. She was launched on 17 April 1802, and saw active service in the East. In 1806 a British squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren captured her off La Palma in the Canary Islands. The Admiralty commissioned her into the Royal Navy as HMS Belle Poule. She was sold in 1816.