HMS Danae (1798)

Danae
History
France
Name	Vaillante
Launched	1796
Renamed	Danaé August 1798
Captured	7 August 1798
Great Britain
Name	HMS Danae
Acquired	By capture 7 August 1798
Commissioned	December 1798
Captured	By mutineers 14 March 1800
France
Name	Vaillante
Acquired	From mutineers 15 March 1800
Fate	Sold out of service 1801
General characteristics
Class and type	Bonne Citoyenne-class corvette
Type	Ship-corvette in French service Sixth-rate post ship in British service
Tons burthen	507 8⁄94 (bm)
Length	119 ft 2 in (36.3 m) (overall) 99 ft 7+1⁄4 in (30.4 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 11+1⁄4 in (9.4 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 11 in (2.7 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	French service: 175 British service: 155
Armament	French service: 20 × 8-pounder guns British service: Upper deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades QD: 6 × 12-pounder carronades Fc: 6 × 12-pounder carronades

Vaillante was a 20-gun French Bonne-Citoyenne-class corvette, built at Bayonne and launched in 1796. British naval Captain Edward Pellew in Indefatigable captured her off the Île de Ré on 7 August 1798. The Admiralty took her into the Royal Navy as the post ship HMS Danae. Some of her crew mutinied in 1800 and succeeded in turning her over to the French. The French returned her to her original name of Vaillante, and sold her in 1801. As a government-chartered transport she made one voyage to Haiti; her subsequent history is unknown at this time.