HMS Baleine

HMS Baleine was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.

Not to be confused with HMCS Baleine.

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Baleine
Builder:	Lorient
Laid down:	1755
Launched:	24 May 1757
Acquired:	19 October 1760
Fate:	Sold on 23 June 1767
General characteristics
Class and type:	32-gun fifth-rate frigate[1]
Tons burthen:	702 70/94 bm
Length:	149 ft 8 in (45.6 m) (overall) 129 ft 0.25 in (39.3 m) (keel)
Beam:	32 ft (9.8 m)
Depth of hold:	12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	220
Armament:	Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounders Quarter deck: 4 × 6-pounders Forecastle: 2 × 6-pounders

She had previously been the French East Indiaman Baleine, built at Lorient to a design by Antoine Groignard and launched on 24 May 1757. She was cut out of Pondicherry during the Third Carnatic War by the boats of HMS Southsea Castle, part of Admiral Charles Stevens' squadron. Stevens purchased her for service with the Royal Navy the following month.

She was commissioned under Captain Philip Affleck in 1762,[2] and was under Captain Hyde Parker by 1764. Baleine arrived back in Britain in August 1764 and was surveyed at Chatham Dockyard the following month. She was not recommissioned, and after being surveyed in April 1767 she was put up for sale. She was sold on 23 June 1767 for £365 and was broken up.

References

1. "NMM, vessel ID 380493" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol xii. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
2. Naval Chronicle, Vol. 18, p.293.

• Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-295-X.

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