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} |} HMS ''Arab'' was the French 20-gun corvette ''Jean Bart'', launched in 1793. The British captured her in 1795 and the Royal Navy took her into service. She was wrecked in 1796. ==French service and capture== ''Jean Bart'' was built to a design by Pierre Duhamel; she was due to be renamed ''Installée'' in May 1795, but was captured before that could happen.〔 She cruised the Channel, the North Sea, and the Atlantic as far as New York.〔Roche (2005).〕 However, on 29 March 1795 she was under the command of ''Lieutenant de vaisseau'' Néel when she encountered and in the Channel. They captured ''Jean Bart'', which accounts describe as having 18 guns and a crew of 110 men, or 20 guns and 120 men. shared in the prize. She was sailing to Brest with dispatches from the French minister in the United States. In a deposition, Guillaume François Néel of Saint Malo testified that he had been the captain of ''Jean Bart'' at her capture, and that she had had 118 persons aboard, one of whom was an American and all the rest were French. He stated that he had thrown a packet containing the dispatches overboard but that it had floated rather than sunk, and that a boat from had retrieved it. The Admiralty took her into the Royal Navy as HMS ''Arab''. She was named and registered on 6 October 1795. Between July and December the Navy had her fitted at Portsmouth for £515.〔 She was commissioned in October 1795 under Commander Stephen Seymour. 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 Arab (1795)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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