French frigate Hortense (1803)
 Model of the Hortense, on display at Toulon naval museum | |
| History | |
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 France
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| Name: | Hortense |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Hortense class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1350 (French tons) |
| Length: | 48.75 m (159.9 ft) |
| Beam: | 12.2 m (40 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.9 m (19 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Ship |
| Armament: | |
Hortense was a 40-gun Hortense Class frigate of the French Navy.
In January 1805, under Captain Delamarre de Lamellerie, she and Incorruptible were sent to observe British movements off Toulon. On 4 February they attacked a convoy, destroying seven ships. Three days later, they encountered another convoy escorted by the 20-gun sloop HMS Arrow and the 8-gun bomb vessel HMS Acheron; the French frigates destroyed the two Royal Navy vessels and captured three ships of the convoy.
Then on 12 May 1805, Hortense and Hermione captured the 18-gun ship-sloop HMS Cyane. Cyane was cruising between Barbados and Martinique when she had the misfortune to encounter a French fleet under Admiral Villeneuve. Hortense and Hermione so out-gunned Cyane that her captain, Commander George Cadogan, had no choice but to strike his colours.[1]
Hortense took part in the Battle of Cape Finisterre, in the Battle of Trafalgar and in Lamellerie's expedition.
In 1814, she was renamed to Flore.
Citations and references
- Citations
- ↑ Hepper (1994), p. 111.
- References
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 247. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.