French frigate Junon (1806)


History
France
NameJunon
Ordered26 March 1805
Laid downMarch 1805, Le Havre
Launched16 August 1806
Captured10 February 1809
United Kingdom
NameJunon
Acquired10 February 1809
Captured13 December 1809
FateScuttled by fire
General characteristics
TypeFrigate
Tons burthen1148 bm
Length46 metres (151 ft)
Beam12 metres (39 ft)
Draught7 metres (23 ft)
Complement330 men
Armament
ArmourTimber

The Junon was a Gloire class 40-gun frigate of the French Navy. Launched in 1806, she saw service during the Napoleonic Wars, escorting merchant convoys to France's besieged Caribbean colonies. In February 1809 she was captured at sea after a fierce engagement with four Royal Navy vessels.

Recommissioned as HMS Junon, she served as part of the British blockade of French ports in the Caribbean. French frigates recaptured her in December 1809 off the French colony of Guadeloupe. The engagement so damaged Junon that her captors scuttled her.