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} |} ''Bonne Citoyenne'' was a 20-gun corvette of the French Navy launched in 1794, the name ship of a four-vessel class. She was part of the French fleet active in the Bay of Biscay and English Channel. The Royal Navy captured her in 1796, commissioning her as the sloop-of-war HMS ''Bonne Citoyenne''. Under British command she served in the Mediterranean, including at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. She was taken out of service in 1803 but returned following refitting in 1808, then serving in the Atlantic. Her most famous action was the capture of the much larger French frigate ''Furieuse'' on 6 July 1809, for which her crew earned the Naval General Service Medal. The later part of her career was spent in South America. Her design was used as the basis for the ''Hermes''-class post ships. She was laid up in 1815, and sold in 1819. ==French service and capture== ''Bonne Citoyenne'' (French for 'good citizen') was built and launched in 1794, put into service in 1795 and served in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.〔 On 4 March she left Rochfort under the command of ''Capitaine de vaisseau'' Mahé-La Bourdonnais. She was in the company of the French frigates ''Forte'', ''Seine'', and ''Regenerée'', and the brig ''Mutine''. They were sailing for the Île de France with troops and ''Bonne Citoyenne'' also had a great deal of soldiers' clothing on board.〔Within the next three or four years the British would capture each one of these four vessels.〕 ''Bonne Citoyenne'' had the misfortune to be damaged in a storm and to become separated from the rest of the French squadron. On 10 March she had the further misfortune to encounter the fifth-rate frigate , under the command of Robert Stopford, and his squadron. The squadron captured her 58 leagues off Cape Finisterre.〔 Stopford then took her back to England as his prize. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS ''Bonne Citoyenne''.〔 Two men from ''Bonne Citoyenne'', Sélis, who had been chief helmsman, and Thierry, a pilot, made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from Petersfield Prison after seven months captivity. Consequently, they were put on board the ''Lady Shore'', which was to carry them, another six French prisoners, and some convicts to Botany Bay.〔''Free Settler or Felon - Convict ship Lady Shore 1797''.() - Accessed 21 May 2013.〕 On the way they fomented a mutiny, seized the vessel, and took her into Rio de Janeiro, where a French frigate squadron under Captain Landolphe, comprising ''Médée'', ''Franchise'' and ''Concorde'', rescued them. 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 Bonne Citoyenne (1796)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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