Confiance (1797 ship)

Capture of Kent by Confiance. Painting by Ambroise Louis Garneray.
History
France
Name	Confiance
Builder	Bordeaux[1]
Launched	November 1797[1]
Commissioned	May 1799[1]
Captured	4 June 1805
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Confiance
Acquired	4 June 1805 by capture
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasps "13 Feb. Boat Service 1808"[2] "Confiance 14 Jany. 1809"[3]
Fate	Sold in 1810
General characteristics [1][4]
Type	Corvette
Displacement	365 tons (French) 700 tons (French) fully loaded
Tons burthen	49159⁄94 (bm)
Length	Overall:35.86 m (117.7 ft) Keel:30.6 m (100 ft)
Beam	9.53 m (31.3 ft)
Draught	4.3 m (14 ft)
Crew	Pre-1800 150 1800: 23 officers and 190 men British service:140
Armament	Pierced for 24 guns May 1799-March 1800: 18 × 8-pounder long guns + 4 swivel guns May 1800: 6 × 8-pounder long guns + 16 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 38-pounder obusiers de vaisseau HMS: 22 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder guns

Confiance, launched in 1797, was a privateer corvette from Bordeaux, famous for being Robert Surcouf's ship during the capture of the British East India Company's East Indiaman Kent. Confiance had captured a number of ships through the years before the British Royal Navy captured her in 1805, taking her into service under her existing name. The Royal Navy sold her in 1810, by which time she had taken part in two notable actions in British service. Confiance then sailed as a merchantman, until 1816.