French frigate Engageante (1766)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Engageante.

File:Capture of Engageante Babet and Pomone 131144.JPG Capture of Pomone, Engageante and Babet
Career (France)
Name:	Engageante
Builder:	Toulon
Laid down:	October 1765
Launched:	27 September 1766
In service:	April 1768
Captured:	23 April 1794
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Engageante
Acquired:	23 April 1794
Fate:	Broken up in May 1811
General characteristics
Displacement:	600 tonnes
Length:	45.5 metres
Beam:	11.5 metres
Draught:	4.7 metres
Propulsion:	Sail
Armament:	26 guns 26 long 12-pounders 6 long 6-pounders
Armour:	Timber

The Engageante was a 26-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

From 1781, she took part in the American Revolutionary War, including the Hudson Bay Expedition in 1782.

She was captured, along with Pomone and Babet, off the Île de Batz during the Action of 23 April 1794. She was subsequently recommissioned in the Royal Navy as the hospital ship HMS Engageante.

Sources and references

• 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. 
• Naval Database