French corvette Sardine (1772)
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| Career (France) |    |
|---|---|
| Name: | Sardine |
| Namesake: | sardine |
| Ordered: | 7 February 1770 |
| Builder: | Toulon |
| Laid down: | June 1770 |
| Launched: | 13 July 1771 |
| In service: | 1772 |
| Captured: | 9 March 1796 |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Sardine |
| Fate: | Sold in 1806 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 280 tonnes |
| Length: | 34.4 metres |
| Beam: | 8.8 metres |
| Draught: | 3.7 metres |
| Armament: | 14 to 18 guns |
| Armour: | Timber |
The Sardine was a corvette of the French Navy, designed by Broquier.
She served in the Mediterranean during the Ancien Régime.
In 1792, she was used as an escort.
On 9 March 1796, as she was anchored in the neutral harbour of Tunis along with Nemesis and Postillon, the French ship were attacked by boats from HMS Egmont, HMS Barfleur and HMS Bombay Castle and captured[1].
Sardine was brought into British service as the sloop-of-war HMS Sardine. From 1805, she was at Portsmouth in Ordinary, and she was sold and broken up in 1806 [2].
Sources and references
- ↑ HMS Egmont, Naval Database
- ↑ HMS Sardine, Naval Database
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.[page needed][self-published source?]
