HMS Nymphe (1780)

HMS Nymphe off Start Point, Devon in 1793
History
Kingdom of France
Name	Nymphe
Namesake	Nymph
Builder	Pierre-Augustin Lamothe, Brest
Laid down	April 1777
Launched	18 August 1777
Commissioned	November 1777
Fate	Captured by HMS Flora, 10 August 1780
Great Britain
Name	HMS Nymphe
Acquired	by capture, 10 August 1780
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal clasps: "Nymphe" 18 June 1793"[1] "23 June 1795"[2] "Nymphe 8 March 1797"[3]
Fate	Wrecked in the Firth of Forth, 18 December 1810
General characteristics [4]
Class and type	Nymphe class
Type	Fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	937 72⁄94 (bm)
Length	141 ft 5+1⁄2 in (43.12 m) (gun deck) 120 ft 4+1⁄2 in (36.69 m) (keel)
Beam	38 ft 3+1⁄4 in (11.66 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 9 in (3.58 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	240
Armament	1777[5] UD: 26 × French 12-pounder guns QD: 4 × French 6-pounder guns FC: 2 × French 6-pounder guns 1780 UD: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 8 × 6-pounder guns FC: 2 × 6-pounder guns 1790 UD: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 12 × 32-pounder carronades FC: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
Service record
Operations:	Battle of the Chesapeake (5 September 1781) Battle of the Saintes (9–12 April 1782) Action of 18 June 1793 Action of 23 April 1794 Battle of Groix (23 June 1795) Quiberon expedition (June–July 1795)

HMS Nymphe was a fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy, formerly the French Nymphe, lead ship of her class. HMS Flora, under the command of Captain William Peere Williams, captured Nymphe off Ushant on 10 August 1780. Indiscriminately referred to as Nymph, Nymphe, La Nymph or La Nymphe in contemporary British sources, she served during the American, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On 19 May 1793, while under the command of Captain Edward Pellew, she captured the frigate Cléopâtre, the first French warship captured in a single-ship action of the war. After a long period of service in which she took part in several notable actions and made many captures, Nymphe was wrecked off the coast of Scotland on 18 December 1810.