HMS Carrere (1801)

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1/72 Scale model of the Carrère's sister ship, the Muiron, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Name: Carrère
Homeport: Toulon
Captured: On stocks by the French, on 15 November 1796
Fate: Captured by the British on 3 August 1801
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Carrere
Acquired: 3 August 1801
Fate: Sold on 1 September 1814
General characteristics
Class and type: 44-gun frigate
Tonnage: 1,013 long tons (1,029.3 t)
Length: 151 ft (46 m)
Beam: 39 ft 6 in (12.0 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 340 (352)
Armament:

(By 1801) 38 guns:

  • 12 × 32 pdr carronades
  • 22 × 18 pdrs
  • 4 × 9 pdrs
Armour: Timber

The French frigate Carrère was one of two 18pdr-armed frigates which were building on the stocks in Venice in November 1796, when Bonaparte took Venice during the Campaign of Italy. The two frigates were completed in August 1797 under the names La Carrère and La Muiron by the orders of Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. They both served during the French invasion of Egypt in 1798, and were the ships used by Napoleon to return to France.[1]

She was taken by the British HMS Pomone (48 guns) at the mouth of Elbe on 3 August 1801[2] and added to the Royal Navy as HMS Carrere, but rated at 36 guns,[3] with Frederick Lewis Maitland as her first captain, being sold on 1 September 1814.

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  1. ^ p.398, Thiers, Shoberl
  2. ^ p.648, Urban
  3. ^ p.138, James

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