French frigate Astrée (1809)
Clorinde, sister-ship of the HMS Pomone (1809)
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 France
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| Name: | Astrée |
| Namesake: | Astraea |
| Builder: | Cherbourg |
| Laid down: | May 1808 |
| Launched: | 1 May 1809 |
| Commissioned: | 22 July 1809 |
| Captured: | 4 December 1810 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Pomone |
| Acquired: | 4 December 1810 |
| Commissioned: | February 1812 |
| Fate: | Broken up in 1816 |
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| Class and type: | Pallas-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1093 42⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 40 ft 2 in (12.2 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1950 m² of Sail |
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| Armour: | Timber |
Astrée was a 44-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, launched at Cherbourg in 1809. In December of the next year she captured HMS Africaine. The Royal Navy captured Astrée in 1810 and took her into service under her French name, rating her as a 38-gun frigate, but then in 1811 recommissioned her as HMS Pomone. She served during the War of 1812 and was broken up in 1816.
Astrée took part in the campaign in the Indian Ocean under Commander René Lemarant de Kerdaniel, serving with Hamelin's squadron. She also was present in the final stages of the Battle of Grand Port.
A few days later, on 30 August, Astrée recaptured the 1-gun schooner-aviso Mouche No.23, which HMS Nereide had captured 2 June.
Astrée came to be part of a squadron under Pierre Bouvet, who had assumed command of the French squadron at Grand Port after Duperré was wounded, and had been promoted to capitaine de frégate. The squadron also comprised Iphigenia as a flagship, and the sloop Entreprenant.
On 12 September 1810, Bouvet's squadron intercepted HMS Africaine (commanded by Commodore Corbett) off Saint-Denis, as the frigate Boadicea, the sloop Otter and the brig Staunch were sailing from the bay of Saint-Paul. Bouvet lured the British into pursuit.
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