![]() Clorinde
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Name | Clorinde |
Namesake | Clorinda |
Builder | Nantes |
Laid down | 24 September 1796 |
Launched | 31 October 1800 |
In service | 27 June 1801 |
Captured | 30 November 1803 |
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Name | Clorinde[1] |
Acquired | 30 November 1803 |
Fate | Broken up in 1817 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 1,350 tons (French) |
Tons burthen | 1161 54⁄94 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 12.2 m (40 ft), or 40 ft 10 in (12.4 m) |
Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
Depth of hold | 12 ft 2 in (3.7 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement | 330 and later 315 (British service) |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
Clorinde was a 44-gun Uranie-class frigate of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1803 and took her into service as HMS Clorinde. She was sold in 1817.
The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered "Clorinde, of 38 guns and 1161 tons", lying at Deptford, for sale on 30 January 1817.[5] The Royal Navy sold Clorinde on 6 March 1817 to Mr. Freake for £2,500.[3]