French frigate Alcmène (1811)

	HMS Venerable fighting the French frigate Alcmène on 16 January 1814
History
France
Name	Alcmène
Laid down	July 1810
Launched	3 October 1811
Captured	16 January 1814
United Kingdom
Name	Dunira
Acquired	16 January 1814 (by capture)
Renamed	HMS Immortalite
Fate	Sold 1837
General characteristics
Class and type	Armide-class frigate
Tons burthen	107978⁄94 (bm)
Length	Overall: 152 ft 8 in (46.53 m); Keel: 127 ft 11+3⁄8 in (39.0 m);
Beam	39 ft 10 in (12.14 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 7+1⁄2 in (3.848 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	French service:320; British service:315;
Armament	French service: 28 × 18-pounder and 8 × 12-pounder guns + 4 × 36-pounder obusiers; British service, though it is not clear she was ever rearmed; UD:28 × 18-pounder guns; QD:14 × 32-pounder carronades; Fc:2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades;

The French frigate Alcmène was an Armide-class frigate of a nominal 44 guns, launched in 1811. The British captured her on 1814. The Royal Navy named her HMS Dunira, and then renamed her HMS Immortalite but never commissioned her nor fitted her for sea. In March 1822 she became a receiving ship at Portsmouth. She was sold in January 1837.

In 1813, along with Iphigénie, she served at Cherbourg, in the squadron of contre-amiral Amable Troude, to protect the harbour.

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