HMS Seine (1798)

HMS Jason attacking the French frigate Seine
History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameSeine
BuilderLe Havre
Laid downMay 1793
Launched19 December 1793
CompletedBy March 1794
Captured30 June 1798, by the Royal Navy
Great Britain
NameHMS Seine
Acquired30 June 1798
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Seine 20 Augt. 1800"[1]
Fate
  • Grounded on 21 July 1803
  • Burnt on 22 July to prevent capture
General characteristics [2]
Class and type38-gun Seine-class fifth rate
Tons burthen1,1458794 (bm)
Length
  • 156 ft 9 in (47.8 m) (overall)
  • 131 ft 9 in (40.2 m) (keel)
Beam40 ft 6 in (12.3 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 4+14 in (3.8 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement284
Armament

Seine was a 38-gun French Seine-class frigate that the Royal Navy captured in 1798 and commissioned as the fifth-rate HMS Seine.[3] On 20 August 1800, Seine captured the French ship Vengeance in a single ship action that would win for her crew the Naval General Service Medal. Seine's career ended in 1803 when she hit a sandbank near the Texel.

  1. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 239.
  2. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 151.
  3. ^ Milne & Beeler (2004), pp. 3–7.