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} |} ''Seine'' was a 38-gun French ''Seine''-class frigate that the Royal Navy captured in 1798 and commissioned as the fifth rate HMS ''Seine''.〔Milne & Beeler (2004), p.3-7.〕 On 20 August 1800, ''Seine'' captured the French ship ''Vengeance'' in a single ship action that would win for her crew the Naval General Service Medal. ''Seine's'' career ended in 1803 when she hit a sandbank near the Texel. ==French career== ''Seine'' was a 40-gun frigate built between May 1793 and March 1794 at Le Havre, having been launched on 19 December 1793. ''Seine''s career with the French Navy lasted less than five years. On 14 July 1794 she and ''Galathée'' captured the 16-gun sloop-of-war in the Atlantic.〔Grocott (1997), p.8.〕 In late 1794, L'Hermitte's squadron sailed for Norway. It comprised the frigates ''Seine'', under L'Hermitte, ''Galathée'', under Labutte, and ''Républicaine'', under Le Bozec. The squadron found itself blocked by cold and damage in a Norwegian harbour during the entire winter of 1794-95, sustaining over 250 dead from illness out of a total complement of 880. In spring, ''Seine'' and ''Galathée'' returned to France, leaving ''Républicaine'' to care for the untransportable sick. They eventually were rescued by the corvette ''Subtile''. ''Seine'' then sailed for Île de France, where she joined the squadron under Sercey. She took part in the Action of 8 September 1796. In March 1798, she sailed from Île de France and was on her way to Lorient when she encountered a British frigate squadron in the Breton Passage on 30 June 1798. and chased her down and captured her at the Action of 30 June 1798. ''Seine'' was commanded by Capitaine Bigot and was armed with forty-two 18 and 9-pounder guns. She had a crew of 610 men, including troops. In the engagement ''Seine'' lost 170 men killed and some 100 men wounded, many mortally. ''Jason'' had seven men killed and 12 wounded. ''Pique'' lost one man killed, six wounded, and one man missing. In the fight ''Jason'', ''Pique'' and ''Seine'' grounded; ''Pique'' was lost, but , which had arrived on the scene, was able to get ''Seine'' off. Although the casualties aboard ''Seine'' had been high she was not badly damaged and Captain David Milne, who had been captain of ''Pique'', and his crew transferred to her. Her captors sailed her into Portsmouth, arriving there on 18 July;〔 Milne commanded ''Seine'' for the rest of her career.〔 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「HMS Seine (1798)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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