French frigate Rhin (1802)
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  France
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| Name: | Rhin |
| Builder: | Toulon |
| Laid down: | June 1801 |
| Launched: | 15 April 1802 |
| Completed: | October 1802 |
| Captured: | 27 July 1806 |
 United Kingdom
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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: | 720 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.
Rhin took part in the Battle of Cape Finisterre and in the Battle of Trafalgar.
HMS Mars captured Rhin on 28 July 1806, after a chase of 26 hours and 150 miles. Her commander, M. Chesneau, struck just before Mars was about to fire her first broadside.Surinam was present or in sight at the capture of the Rhin.
Rhin arrived at Plymouth on 8 August. She was repaired and fitted there from March through August 1809. The Royal Navy commissioned her in June 1809 as HMS Rhin under Captain Frederick Aylmer for the Channel. Captain Charles Malcolm replaced Aylmer in July 1809, and would remain her captain until Rhin paid off in 1815.
On 16 November 1809, Rhin was in company with Pheasant when Pheasant recaptured the brig Trust.
On 22 March 1810 Rhin captured the French privateer Navarrois. Navarrois was four days out of Bayonne, was armed with 16 guns and carried a crew of 132 men.
On 27 September Wolverine had been in pursuit of a French brig when Rhin joined the chase and after two and a half hours captured the quarry off the Lizard. The French vessel was the privateer San Joseph, of Saint Malo, under the command of a Joseph Wittevronghel, a Dane.San Joseph was one year old, about 100 tons burthen (bm), and armed with 14 guns though she was pierced for 16. She had only been out one day when the British captured her and had taken nothing. Little Belt had been in company with Wolverine at the time.
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