French frigate Bellone (1778)

Battle between Bellone and HMS Foudroyant
Fight between Bellone and HMS Foudroyant at the Battle of Tory Island
History
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Name
  • N°6 [1]
  • Bellone
NamesakeBellona
BuilderSaint Malo [2]
Laid downJanuary 1778 [2]
Launched22 August 1778 [2]
CommissionedFebruary 1779 [2]
Captured12 October 1798 [2]
Great Britain
NameProserpine
Acquired12 October 1798
Fate
General characteristics [2]
Class and typeIphigénie-class frigate
Displacement1,150 tons (French)
Tons burthen888294[3]
Length44.2 m (145 ft)
Beam11.2 m (37 ft)
Draught4.9 m (16 ft)
PropulsionSail
Armament
  • 32 guns:[a]
  • UD: 28 × 18-pounder long guns
  • Spardeck:4 × 6-pounder long guns

Bellone was an Iphigénie-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy on plans by Léon-Michel Guignace.[1] She took part in the American Revolutionary War in the Indian Ocean with the squadron under Suffren, and later in the French Revolutionary Wars. She was present at the Glorious First of June.

The British Royal Navy captured her in 1798 and commissioned her as HMS Proserpine. She never went to sea and was broken up in 1806.

  1. ^ a b Demerliac (1996), p. 63, n°380.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Roche (2005), p. 71.
  3. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 209.


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