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} |} The ''Cléopâtre'' was a 32-gun ''Vénus'' class frigate of the French Navy. She was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, and had a coppered hull. She was launched in 1781, but the British captured her in 1793. She then served the Royal Navy as HMS ''Oiseau'' until she was broken up in 1816. ==French career and capture== She took part in the taking of Cuddalore in 1782. On 19 June 1793, as she sailed off Guernsey under ''Lieutenant de vaisseau'' Mullon, she encountered , under Captain Edward Pellew. During the short but sharp action, ''Cléopâtre'' lost her mizenmast and wheel, and the ship, being unmanageable, fell foul of the ''Nymphe''. The British then boarded and captured her in a fierce rush. Mullon, mortally wounded, died while trying to swallow his commission, which, in his dying agony, he had mistaken for the vessel's secret signals. Pellew then sent the signals to the Admiralty. In the battle ''Nymphe'' had 23 men killed and 27 wounded. Pellew estimated the number of French casualties at about 60. ''Cléopâtre'' was the first frigate taken in the war. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Nymphe 18 June 1793" to the four surviving claimants from the action. 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 Cléopâtre (1781)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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