HMS Decade (1798)

	Decade
History
France
Name	Décade
Builder	Pierre Guibert, Bordeaux
Laid down	March 1794
Launched	10 October 1794
Completed	January 1795
Renamed	Had been previously named Macreuse, and Décade française
Captured	24 August 1798, by the Royal Navy
Great Britain
Name	HMS Decade
Acquired	24 August 1798
Fate	Sold on 21 February 1811
General characteristics
Class and type	Galathée-class frigate
Displacement	1,150 tons (French)
Tons burthen	914 77⁄94 (bm)
Length	143 ft 8+1⁄2 in (43.8 m) (overall); 119 ft 1+1⁄4 in (36.3 m) (keel);
Beam	38 ft (11.6 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 8 in (3.56 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	French service: 209 (peace) & 282 (war); British service:255;
Armament	French service; Upper deck (UD): 26 × 12-pounder guns; Spar deck:12 × 6-pounder guns; British service; UD: 26 x 12-pounder guns; QD: 2 x 6-pounder guns + 10 x 24-pounder carronades; Fc: 4 x 6-pounder guns + 2 x 24-pounder carronades;

HMS Decade was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the French 'Galathée-class frigate Décade, which the British had captured in 1798. She served with the British during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was sold out of the service in 1811.

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