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| Name |
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| Namesake | Bellona |
| Builder | Saint Malo [1] |
| Laid down | January 1778 [1] |
| Launched | 22 August 1778 [1] |
| Commissioned | February 1779 [1] |
| Captured | 12 October 1798 [1] |
 Great Britain | |
| Name | Proserpine |
| Acquired | 12 October 1798 |
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| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Iphigénie-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,150 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen | 8882⁄94[3] |
| Length | 44.2 m (145 ft) |
| Beam | 11.2 m (37 ft) |
| Draught | 4.9 m (16 ft) |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Armament | |
Bellone was an Iphigénie-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy on plans by Léon-Michel Guignace.[2] She took part in the American Revolutionary War in the Indian Ocean with the squadron under Suffren, and later in the French Revolutionary Wars. She was present at the Glorious First of June.
The British Royal Navy captured her in 1798 and commissioned her as HMS Proserpine. She never went to sea and was broken up in 1806.
- ^ a b c d e f Roche (2005), p. 71.
- ^ a b Demerliac (1996), p. 63, n°380.
- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 209.
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