History | |
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France | |
Name | Ménagère |
Builder | Toulon shipyard |
Acquired | Purchased in May 1779[1] |
Captured | 24 September 1779, by the Royal Navy |
Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Albemarle |
Acquired | Captured on 24 September 1779 |
Commissioned | 22 November 1779 |
Fate | Sold on 1 June 1784 |
Great Britain | |
Name | Albemarle |
Owner | Calvert & Co. |
Operator | East India Company, 1791–1793 |
Acquired | 1784 or 1790-1 by purchase |
Captured | May 1793 |
Fate | Subsequent fate is currently unknown |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 520, or 530,[2] or 543 (bm) |
Length | 125 ft (38.1 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 7 in (9.6 m) |
Depth of hold | 13 ft 7+1⁄2 in (4.15 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Albemarle was a 28-gun sixth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had been built as the French merchantman Ménagère, which the French Navy purchased in 1779. A British squadron captured her in September and she was commissioned into service with the Royal Navy. Amongst her commanders in her short career was Captain Horatio Nelson, who would later win several famous victories over the French. The Navy sold her in 1784. She subsequently became a merchant vessel again. In 1791 she transported convicts to Port Jackson as part of the third fleet. She then sailed to India where she picked up a cargo on behalf of the British East India Company. As she was returning to England a French privateer captured her.