![]() Quarantine guard ship Rhin, Margate Creek
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Name | Rhin |
Builder | Toulon |
Laid down | June 1801 |
Launched | 15 April 1802 |
Completed | October 1802 |
Captured | 27 July 1806 |
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Name | Rhin |
Acquired | 27 July 1806 |
Commissioned | June 1809 |
Fate | Sold 26 May 1884 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Virginie-class frigate |
Displacement | 1400 tonnes |
Tons burthen | 1079 62⁄94 (bm) |
Length | 47.4 m (156 ft) |
Beam | 11.9 m (39 ft) |
Draught | 5.5 m (18 ft) |
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Rhin was a 40-gun Virginie-class frigate of the French Navy launched in 1802. She was present at two major battles while in French service. The Royal Navy captured her in 1806. Thereafter Rhin served until 1815 capturing numerous vessels. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars she was laid up and then served as a hospital for many years. She was finally broken up in 1884.