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} |} The ''Chiffonne'' was a 38-gun ''Heureuse'' class frigate of the French Navy. She was built at Nantes and launched in 1799. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1801. In 1809 she participated in a campaign against pirates in the Persian Gulf. She was sold for breaking up in 1814. ==French service== On 11 July 1801, ''Chiffone'', under the command of Captain Pierre Guiyesse arrived at Mahé, Seychelles from the port of St Nazaire with 33 deportees under sentence of exile from France. The exiles had been involved in the Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise against Napoleon.〔 On 15 May, off Brazil, she captured a Portuguese schooner. Three days later she captured Brazilian frigate named the ''Hirondelle'', armed en flute. ''Hirondelle'' (or possibly ''Andorhina'') was armed with twenty-four 24-pounder carronades and put up a short fight. Guiyesse had her guns thrown overboard, took her stores (cables, spare rigging and sails), and then released her officers and crew under parole. On 16 June, ''Chiffone'' captured the East Indiaman ''Bellona'' on her way from Bengal to London. In taking ''Bellone'', ''Chiffone'' had her mizzen mast crippled. A prize crew under Ensign Jean-Michel Mahé took ''Bellona'' to Mauritius where she arrived a month later.〔 On 19 August the HMS ''Sibylle'', Captain Charles Adam, chased her off Mahé, Seychelles. At the time of the British attack ''Chiffone'' was at anchor and aided her defense by constructing a battery using some of her forecastle guns and heating the shot.〔 Her captain, Commander Guiyesse, attempted to avoid capture by beaching ''Chiffonne'', but the British captured her the next day. She had lost 23 men killed and 30 wounded; ''Sybille'' lost two men killed and one wounded.〔 She was brought into British service as HMS ''Chiffonne''. When Adams arrived in Madras with his prize the insurance company there presented him with a sword worth guineas, while the merchants of Calcutta later too presented him with a sword and a piece of plate.〔Conolly (1866), p.2-3.〕 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 Chiffone (1799)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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