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''Franchise'' was launched in 1798 as a 40-gun ''Coquille''-class frigate of the French Navy. The British captured her in 1803 and took her into the Royal Navy under her existing name. In the war on commerce during the Napoleonic Wars she was more protector than prize-taker, capturing many small privateers but apparently few prizes. She was also at the battle of Copenhagen. She was broken up in 1815. ==French service and capture== She was part of a squadron of three frigates, ''Concorde'' under Commodore Jean-François Landolphe, ''Médée'' under Captain Jean-Daniel Coudin and ''Franchise'' under Captain Pierre Jurien, with Landolphe as the overall commander, that left Rochefort on 6 March 1799. Eluding the British blockade off Rochefort, the squadron sailed southwards until it reached the coast of West Africa. There Landolphe's ships began an extended commerce raiding operation, inflicting severe damage on the West African trade for the rest of the year. During this time, the squadron captured the Portuguese island of Prince (Príncipe).〔Fonds, Vol. 1, p.244.〕 Eventually the strain of serving in tropical waters told on the ships and all three were forced to undergo an extensive refit in the nearest available allied shipyards, which were located in the Spanish-held River Plate in South America. At Montevideo the squadron assisted the French prisoners that had captured and taken into that port the convict transport ''Lady Shore'' which was carrying them to Australia. Repairs continued for six months, until Landolphe considered the squadron once again ready to sail in the early summer of 1800. The squadron almost immediately captured off the coast of Brazil the American schooner ''Espérance'' (''Hope''), which they used as an aviso and sent to Cayenne with a prize crew under the command of ''enseigne de vaisseau'' Hamon.〔 (At the time, France and the United States had been engaged for two years in the Quasi War.) During the Action of 4 August 1800, off Rio de Janeiro, captured ''Concorde'' and Landolphe, and the East Indiamen ''Exeter'' and ''Bombay Castle'' captured ''Médée''. On 9 August ''Franchise'' encountered the merchantman ''Wellesley'', which was on her way to the Cape, but after an engagement of about an hour, the British ship succeeded in driving off her attacker.〔Grant (1803), p. 52.〕 ''Franchise'' followed ''Wellesley'' for two days but then gave up the chase;〔 ''Franchise'' managed to return to France, running back through the British blockade. On 28 May 1803 HMS ''Minotaur'', in company with , and later joined by , captured ''Franchise''. ''Franchise'' was 33 days out of Port-au-Prince; of the sixteen 9-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle, ten were in her hold. She had a crew of 187 men under the command of Captain Jurien. Because she had been with Admiral William Cornwallis's fleet, ''Minotaur'' had to share the prize money not only with ''Thunderer'' and ''Albion'', but also with , , , , , , and possibly others. 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 Franchise (1797)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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