Scale model of Achille, sister ship of HMS Pompee (1793), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
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History | |
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France | |
Name: | Pompée |
Namesake: | Pompey |
Builder: | Toulon shipyard |
Laid down: | January 1790 |
Launched: | 28 May 1791 |
Commissioned: | February 1793 |
Captured: | 29 August 1793 |
United Kingdom | |
Name: | HMS Pompee |
Acquired: | 29 August 1793 |
Reclassified: | Prison hulk in Portsmouth in 1816 |
Fate: | Broken up in January 1817 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
Tons burthen: | 1,901 8⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam: | 49 ft 0 1⁄2 in (14.948 m) |
Depth of hold: | 21 ft 10 1⁄2 in (6.668 m) |
Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
Complement: | 640 |
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French service:
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HMS Pompee was a 74-gun ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. Built as Pompée, a Téméraire class ship of the French Navy, she was handed over to the British during the Siege of Toulon (September-December 1793) a few months after being completed, and spent the entirety of her active career with the Royal Navy until she was broken up in 1817.
During the Siege of Toulon, Captain Poulain, her commanding officer, joined the British. Pompee fled Toulon when the city fell to the French Republicans and sailed to Britain under the temporary command of Lieutenant John Davie. She arrived at Portsmouth on 3 May 1794, and was registered on the navy list under an Admiralty order dated 29 October 1794.
She commissioned as HMS Pompee under her first commander, Captain Charles Edmund Nugent, in May 1795 and entered service with the Channel Fleet after a period of refitting. From August 1795 she was under Captain James Vashon, and she was later one of the ships involved in the Spithead mutiny in 1797.
Leviathan, Pompee, Anson, Melpomene, and Childers shared in the proceeds of the capture on 10 September of the Tordenshiold.
Under Captain Charles Stirling, she fought at the Battle of Algeciras Bay in 1801. In 1807 the ship, under the command of Captain Richard Dacres served in the Mediterranean squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir Sydney Smith, as part of the Vice-Admiral Duckworth's Dardanelles Operation and later the Alexandria expedition of 1807.