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} |} HMS ''Decade'' was an 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the French ''Galathée''-class frigate ''Décade'', which the British had captured in 1798. She served with the British during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was sold out of the service in 1811. ==French service and capture== ''Décade'' was built at Bordeaux between March 1794 and January 1795, having been launched on 10 October 1794. She had been previously named ''Macreuse''.〔Winfield (2008), p.195.〕 After a short career with the French Navy she was captured on 24 August 1798. On 24 August, was chasing a French frigate, which joined. After about three hours the two British ships had caught up with the French ship, which proceeded for the next hour to fire on them with her stern chasers. She then struck. The French ship was ''Décade'', with a crew of 336 men under the command of Citoyen Villeneau. ''Décade'' was pierced for 44 guns, but she had landed ten in Cayenne, from where she had sailed. In all, ''Naiad'' had chased ''Décade'' for 36 hours. The British took ''Décade'' back to Plymouth. She was registered there in October and fitted out there between April and December 1799.〔 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 Decade (1798)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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