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} |} The ''Caroline'' was a 40-gun ''Hortense'' Class frigate of the French Navy. She was launched in 1806, sent to the Indian Ocean in 1809, where she was captured by the British during the Napoleonic Wars. The British renamed the ship to HMS ''Bourbonaise'', as the capture was near Île Bourbon during the British campaign to seize that island and Mauritius, and the British had a ship in service named Caroline. ==Actions in 1807== On 30 November 1807 ''Caroline'' captured the ''Charlotte'', which ''Caroline'' set afire and sank. A week later, on 6 December, ''Caroline'' captured the privateer ''Caesar'', which she also set on fire and sank. ''Caesar'' was a brig of 217 tons (bm), armed with fourteen 6-pounders and two 18-pounder carronades. Her master, Robert Harrison, had received his letter of marque on 1 January 1807. ''Caesar'' had already captured several vessels. ==Indian Ocean mission and capture== On 12 November 1808, the French authorities sent four new 40-gun frigates to the Indian Ocean. One of them was ''Caroline'', under the command of Captain Jean-Baptiste Billard, ''Caroline'' sailed from Vlissingen in the Netherlands. '' Caroline'' initially patrolled with ''Manche'' and ''Iéna'' under ''capitaine de vaisseau'' Billard. ''Manche'' was under the command of Captain Breton and was another of the four; she had sailed from Cherbourg. ''Caroline'' captured several ships, notably the two 20-gun East Indiamen ''Streatham'' and ''Europa'' on 3 May 1809, before returning to Saint-Paul. A third East Indiaman, ''Lord Kieth'', escaped. Prize crews took ''Streatham'' and ''Europa'' to Réunion, where the British recaptured them on 21 September.〔 Billard suffering from very serious illness, ''Caroline'' was under the command of his first mate ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Feretier when, on 21 September, HMS ''Sirius'' and HMS ''Raisonnable'' captured her during the British Raid on Saint-Paul. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French frigate Caroline (1806)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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