French corvette Aurore (1799)

Aurore

History
France
Name	Aurore
Builder	Le Havre
Laid down	November 1797
Launched	16 July 1799
Captured	18 January 1801
United Kingdom
Name	Charwell (or Cherwell)
Acquired	18 January 1801 by capture
Commissioned	April 1803
Out of service	Laid up in July 1810
Fate	Sold 1813
General characteristics [1][2]
Class and type	Mutine-class corvette[3]
Displacement	379-400 tons (French)
Tons burthen	34581⁄94 (bm)
Length	102 ft 1 in (31.1 m) (overall) 78 ft 8 in (24.0 m) (keel)
Beam	28 ft 9 in (8.8 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 1+1⁄4 in (4.0 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	French service: 156 British service: 96
Armament	French service: 16 × 8-pounder guns British service: 14 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 9-pounder guns

The 16-gun French Mutine-class corvette Aurore was launched in 1799. The British frigate HMS Thames captured her in 1801; she was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1803 and named HMS Charwell (or Cherwell). Charwell served in the Channel, South Atlantic, and Indian Ocean. She was laid up in 1810 and sold in 1813.