French frigate Aréthuse (1791)
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Aréthuse was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, built from 1789 following plans by Ozanne.{{cite web |url= http://www.netmarine.net/bat/smarins/arethuse/ancien.htm |title=Bâtiments ayant porté le nom d'Aréthuse |first=Jean-Michel |last=Roche |work=netmarine.net |year=2012 |accessdate=3 April 2013}}
Career
She was launched on 3 March 1791, and served in the Mediterranean under Captain Bouvet.
In 1793, she cruised off the Pyrenees, along with the 40-gun frigate Topaze.{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=441}}
During the Siege of Toulon, Royalist rioters surrendered Aréthuse to the British. She escaped to Portoferraio when the city fell, and was brought into Royal Navy service as HMS Arethuse.
In July 1795, she was renamed HMS Undaunted.
On 9 February 1796, she sailed for the Leeward Islands under the command of Henry Roberts. She then joined Captain Thomas Parr, in the fourth rate HMS Malabar, as part of the squadron that occupied the Dutch colonies of Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice in April and May.{{cite web |url=http://www.rmg.co.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_xi.pdf |title=NMM, vessel ID 378036 |work=Warship Histories, vol xi |publisher=National Maritime Museum |accessdate=3 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130806231943/http%3A//www.rmg.co.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_xi.pdf |archivedate=6 August 2013 }}{{cite book |last1=Clowes |first1=William Laird |authorlink1=William Laird Clowes |title=The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present |url=https://archive.org/details/royalnavy04clow |accessdate=3 April 2013 |volume=IV |year=1899 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/royalnavy04clow/page/291 291] }}
On 27 August 1796, under the command of Robert Winthrop, she was wrecked on the Morant Cays in the West Indies.
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References
- {{cite book |first=Jean-Michel |last=Roche |year=2005 |chapter=ARETHUSE - Frégate de 40 canons (1792 - 1793) |title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870 |publisher=Roche |location=Toulon |isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6 |oclc=165892922}}
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Category:Age of Sail frigates of France
Category:Maritime incidents in 1796