French ship Éole (1799)

History
France
Name	Éole
Namesake	Aeolus
Builder	Bordeaux
Commissioned	As a privateer in 1797
Recommissioned	In the French Navy September 1799
Fate	Captured 1799
Great Britain
Name	HMS Nimrod
Acquired	1799 by capture
Fate	Sold 1811
United Kingdom
Name	Nimrod
Owner	John Soady Rains
Acquired	1811 by purchase
Fate	Last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1820.
General characteristics
Displacement	300 (tons; French)
Tons burthen	341, 342, 345, or 395, or 398 by calc. (bm)
Length	30.9 m (101 ft)
Beam	8.85 m (29 ft 0 in)
Complement	French service:125; HMS:; Originally:86; 1804:121; Whaler:36;
Armament	French service; French records:16 guns; British records:16 × 8-pounder guns + 2 × 36-pounder Obusier de vaisseau; HMS:; Originally:16 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder chase guns; 1804:16 × 24-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder chase guns; Whaler:; 1812: 14 ×12-pounder guns; 1814:12 ×12-pounder guns;
Armour	Timber

Éole was an 18-gun corvette of the French Navy, launched, captured, and later commissioned in the Royal Navy in 1799 as HMS Nimrod after her capture by HMS Solebay. She was then "the finest and most handsome ship-sloop in the British navy". She was sold in 1811. Nimrod made three whaling voyages between 1811 and 1819. On her first she captured several American whalers. Nimrod was last listed in 1820.

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