HMS Brazen (1798)

History
France
Name	L'Invincible General Bonaparte
Fate	Captured 9 December 1798
Notes	Privateer
Great Britain
Name	HMS Brazen
Commissioned	19 October 1799
Captured	9 December 1798
Fate	Wrecked 26 January 1800
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	sloop
Tons burthen	36317⁄94 (bm)
Length	105 ft 2+1⁄2 in (32.1 m) (overall) 68 ft 3+3⁄8 in (20.8 m) (keel)
Beam	28 ft 1+1⁄2 in (8.6 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 7+1⁄2 in (4.2 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Sloop
Complement	French service:170 British service:120
Armament	French service:20 guns (12 & 18-pounders) British service: 16 × 24-pounder carronades 2 × 6-pounder chase guns

HMS Brazen was the French privateer Invincible General Bonaparte (or Invincible Bonaparte or Invincible Buonaparte), which the British captured in 1798. She is best known for her wreck in January 1800 in which all but one of her crew drowned.