Scale model of Achille, sister-ship of Pompée, on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris |
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| Career (France) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Pompée |
| Namesake: | Pompey |
| Builder: | Toulon shipyard |
| Laid down: | January 1790 |
| Launched: | 28 May 1791 |
| Commissioned: | February 1793 |
| Captured: | 29 August 1793 |
| Career (UK) | |
| Name: | HMS Pompee |
| Acquired: | 29 August 1793 |
| Reclassified: | Prison hulk in Portsmouth in 1816 |
| Fate: | Broken up in January 1817 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Téméraire ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1,9018⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 182 ft 2 in (55.52 m) (gundeck) 148 ft 7.75 in (45.3073 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 49 ft 0.5 in (14.948 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 21 ft 10.5 in (6.668 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 640 |
| Armament: |
74 guns:
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HMS Pompee was a 74-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had been built as Pompée, a Téméraire-class ship of the French Navy. She was handed over to the British during the Siege of Toulon a few months after being completed, and spent the entirety of her active career with the British.
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During the Siege of Toulon, Captain Poulain, her commanding officer, joined the British. She fled Toulon when the city fell to the French Republicans and sailed to Britain under the temporary command of Lieutenant John Davie. She arrived at Portsmouth on 3 May 1794, and was registered on the navy list under an Admiralty order dated 29 October 1794.[1]
She commissioned as HMS Pompee under her first commander, Captain Charles Edmund Nugent, in May 1795 and entered service wit the Channel Fleet after a period of refitting. From August 1795 she was under Captain James Vashon, and she was later one of the ships involved in the Spithead mutiny in 1797.[1]
Under Captain Charles Stirling, she fought at the Battle of Algeciras Bay in 1801. In 1807 the ship, under the command of Captain Richard Dacres served in the Mediterranean squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir Sydney Smith,[2] as part of the Vice-Admiral Duckworth's Dardanelles Operation and later the Alexandria expedition of 1807.
In late 1808 the Pompee was in the Caribbean, and took part in the capture of Martinique in January 1809
She later captured the brig Pylade on 20 October 1808, and her sister-ship Hautpoul on 17 April 1809.
She was fitted out for service as a prison hulk between September 1810 and January 1811.[1] She was finally broken up at Woolwich in January 1817.[1]
The acquisition of Pompée allowed the British to design a copy of the Téméraire class, the Pompée class.