HMS Danae (1798)
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| Name: | Vaillante |
| Launched: | 1796 |
| Renamed: | Danaé August 1798 |
| Captured: | 7 August 1798 |
 Great Britain
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| Name: | HMS Danae |
| Acquired: | By capture 7 August 1798 |
| Captured: | By mutineers 14 March 1800 |
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France
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| Name: | Vaillante |
| Acquired: | From mutineers 15 March 1800 |
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| Class and type: | Bonne Citoyenne-class corvette |
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| Tonnage: | 507 8⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 30 ft 11 1⁄4 in (9.4 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 8 ft 11 in (2.7 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
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Vaillante was a 20-gun French Bonne-Citoyenne-class corvette, built at Bayonne and launched in 1796. British naval Captain Edward Pellew in Indefatigable captured her off the Île de Ré on 7 August 1798. The Admiralty took her into the Royal Navy as the post ship HMS Danae. Some of her crew mutinied in 1800 and succeeded in turning her over to the French. The French returned her to her original name of Vaillante, and sold her in 1801. As a government-chartered transport she made one voyage to Haiti; her subsequent history is unknown at this time.
Vaillante was built at Bayonne between 1794 and August 1796, and was launched in 1796. She was armed with twenty long 8-pounders and 175 men, commanded by Lieutenant la Porte, and bound to Cayenne, carrying 25 banished priests, 27 convicts, and Madame Rovère and family.Indefatigable captured Vaillante off the Île de Ré on 7 August 1798. She arrived in Portsmouth on 20 October 1798, was registered and renamed Danae on 11 October 1798 and was fitted out until February 1799. James draws attention to the fact that the British equipped her with more cannons, but fewer men, than the French had.
Captain Lord William Proby commissioned Danae in December 1798. In March 1799 a gale caught her in a bay of shoals and rocks near the Île de Batz. Two of her anchor cables broke and her crew let go a third anchor, which held. The storm stove in all her boats and Proby slipped and fell down the main hatchway. The fall dislocated his shoulder and broke two ribs.
On 4 April 1799 Danae captured the 14-gun lugger Sans Quartier, off Chausey.Sans Quartier had a crew of 56 men and though she was pierced for 14 guns, she had thrown all overboard in an attempt to escape from Danae.
On 25 December 1799 Danae, Sylph and the hired armed cutter Nimrod assisted Ethalion, which had hit some rocks. They were able to rescue the crew and Ethalion was then burnt.
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