French corvette Mignonne (1795)

*Mignonne*
History
France
Name	Mignonne
Builder	Cherbourg Dockyard; Construteurs: Pierre Ozanne and from March 1793, Jean-François Lafosse
Laid down	1794
Launched	15 October 1795
Captured	June 1803
United Kingdom
Name	Mignonne
Namesake	French: "dainty"Mignon/mignonne at Wiktionary
Acquired	by capture June 1803
Fate	Ran aground, December 1804
General characteristics
Type	Corvette
Displacement	650-719 ton (French)
Tons burthen	c.564 (bm)
Length	35.95 m (117.9 ft) (overall); 32.48 m (106.6 ft) (keel);
Beam	9.74 m (32.0 ft)
Draught	4.68 m (15.4 ft) (unladen)
Depth of hold	4.82 m (15.8 ft)
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	121 (British establishment)
Armament	French service: 16 x 18-pounder long guns; At capture:10 x 18-pounder long guns; British service: 18 × 9-pounder guns;
Armour	Timber

Mignonne was an 18-gun Etna-class corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1795. She served until 1803 when the British captured her. Though she served briefly, there is no record of her actually being commissioned into the Royal Navy; she grounded and was condemned in 1804.

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