French frigate Sensible (1787)

History
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NameSensible
NamesakeFrench: "sensitive"
Ordered23 January 1786
BuilderToulon
Laid downFebruary 1786
Launched9 August 1787
In serviceMarch 1788
Captured28 June 1798
Great Britain
NameSensible
Acquired28 June 1798 by capture
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
FateWrecked on 2 March 1802
General characteristics [2]
Class and typeMagicienne-class frigate
Displacement600 tonnes & c.1100 tonnes fully loaded
Tons burthen9456794 (bm)[3]
Length44.2 m (145 ft)
Beam11.2 m (37 ft)
Draught5.2 m (17 ft)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament
  • French service:26 × 12-pounder long guns + 6 × 6-pounder long guns
  • British service: No establishment of guns[3]

Sensible was a 32-gun Magicienne-class frigate of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1798 off Malta and took into service as HMS Sensible. She was lost in a grounding off Ceylon in 1802.

  1. ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 64, no.392.
  3. ^ a b Winfield (2008), pp. 206–207.