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} |} The ''Néréide'' was a ''Sybille'' class 32-gun, copper-hulled, frigate of the French Navy. On 22 December 1797 HMS ''Phoebe'' captured her and she was taken into British service as HMS ''Nereide''. The French recaptured her at the Battle of Grand Port, only to lose her again when the British took Isle de France (now Mauritius), in 1810. After the Battle of Grand Port she was in such a poor condition that she was laid up and sold for breaking up in 1816. ==French service== On 6 June 1780, along with ''Zodiaque'' (74 guns), she captured a British privateer, the 10-gun cutter ''Prince of Wales'' off Madeira. She was part of the fleet of Lamotte-Picquet that sailed from Brest and on 2 May 1781 captured 18 ships in a convoy from Sint Eustatius. In 1782 she served in the Caribbean under Vaudreuil. From 1788, she served off Africa. She then underwent a refit in Rochefort in October 1794. On 20 December 1797 she was sailing off the Isles of Scilly under the command of Lieutenant de Vaisseau Chassériau when she encountered ''Phoebe''. After exchanging broadsides with ''Phoebe'' for about an hour and a half, ''Néréide'' struck. She had suffered 20 killed and 55 wounded; ''Phoebe'' had suffered three men killed and 10 wounded. Although the French vessel had a larger crew, she had a substantially lighter broadside (12-pdrs versus 18-pdrs) and this proved decisive. She entered into British service as HMS ''Nereide''. 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 Néréide (1779)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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