HMS Bonetta (1798)

Plans and elevation of Huit Amis as recorded in British sources after her capture
History
France
NameHuit Amis
Namesake"Eight friends"
BuilderBordeaux
Launched1798
Captured10 May 1798
Great Britain
NameHMS Bonetta
NamesakeAtlantic bonito
AcquiredMay 1798 by capture
CommissionedAugust 1798
FateWrecked 25 October 1801
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen3477094 (bm)
Length
  • Overall:103 ft 1 in (31.4 m)
  • Keel:85 ft 5 in (26.0 m)
Beam27 ft 8 in (8.4 m)
Depth of hold13 ft 0+12 in (4.0 m)
Complement
  • Privateer: 160
  • Royal Navy: 121
Armament
  • Privateer: 18 × 6–pounder guns + two smaller guns[2]
  • Royal Navy:18 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Bonetta was the French privateer Huit Amis, launched at Bordeaux in 1798 that the British Royal Navy captured in May. In her brief naval career she captured a number of small prizes, one of them a 2-gun privateer. Bonetta was wrecked in 1801.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 266.
  2. ^ Demerliac (1796), p. 271, №2392.