French frigate Réunion (1786)
La Réunion was a 36-gun French warship launched in 1786. During the French Revolutionary War she was stationed at Cherbourg and was successfully employed harassing British merchant shipping in the English Channel until the British captured her off the Cotentin Peninsula during the action of 20 October 1793. Renamed HMS Reunion, she served for three years in the Royal Navy helping to counter the threat from the new Batavian Navy, before she was wrecked in the Thames Estuary in December 1796.
The capture of Reunion by HMS Crescent, off the Cotentin Peninsula, on 20 October 1793. Robert Dodd | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | La Réunion |
| Laid down | February 1785 |
| Launched | 23 February 1786 |
| Completed | January 1787 |
| Captured | 20 October 1793 |
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Reunion |
| Fate | Wrecked |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,100 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen | 951 43⁄94bm |
| Length | 144 feet (44 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 38 ft 10+1⁄2 in (11.8 m) |
| Depth | 12 ft 1 in (3.7 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | French service:267-285 |
| Armament | |
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