HMS Pompee (1793)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of HMS Pompee (1793), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
French Navy Ensign France
NamePompée
NamesakePompey
BuilderToulon shipyard
Laid downJanuary 1790
Launched28 May 1791
CommissionedFebruary 1793
Captured29 August 1793
Great Britain
NameHMS Pompee
Acquired29 August 1793
ReclassifiedPrison hulk in Portsmouth in 1816
FateBroken up in January 1817
General characteristics
Class and typeTéméraire-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1,901894 (bm)
Length
  • 182 ft 2 in (55.52 m) (gundeck)
  • 148 ft 7+34 in (45.307 m) (keel)
Beam49 ft 0+12 in (14.948 m)
Depth of hold21 ft 10+12 in (6.668 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement640
ArmamentFrench service:
British service:
  • Lower deck: 30 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper deck: 30 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 12 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 4 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Roundhouse: 8 ×18-pounder carronades
British Pompée-class ship of the line plan based on Pompée

HMS Pompee was a 74-gun ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. Built as Pompée, a Téméraire-class ship of the French Navy, she was handed over to the British at Spithead by French royalists who had fled France[1] after the Siege of Toulon (September–December 1793) by the French Republic, only a few months after being completed. After reaching Great Britain, Pompée was registered and recommissioned as HMS Pompee and spent the entirety of her active career with the Royal Navy until she was broken up in 1817.

  1. ^ "Pompey_Why_Is_It_So_Called".