The Clorinde was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy

French Navy

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, designed by Sané

Sane

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From June 1809, she was stationed with the 16-gun Milan and the 38-gun Renommée. In September, she sailed with Renommée, Loire and Seine to Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe

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. On 13 December, she and Renommée captured HMS Junon .

On 15 December 1809, she ran aground, and freed herself by dropping guns and ammunition overboard.

She took part in the Action of 20 May 1811, fought off Madagascar, and returned to Brest. Captain Jacques Saint-Cricq was found guilty of failing to properly support his commodore, and demoted of rank, expelled from the legion of Honour, and sentenced to three years in prison.

On 25 February 1814, at lat. 47° 40' N., lon. 9° 30' W., she was chased by the 38-gun HMS Eurotas . A violent fight ensued for two hours and 20 minutes that left both ships dismasted, Eurotas suffering 20 killed and 30 wounded (including Captain John Phillimore

John Phillimore

Sir John Phillimore CB was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was involved in several notable actions during his active career, taking part in both Battles of Copenhagen, sending Sir Hyde Parker's famous signal to Nelson in the...

), and Clorinde, 40 killed and 80 wounded. During the night, the ships built jury rig

Jury rig

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s and resumed the pursuit the next day, when HMS Dryad

HMS Dryad (1795)

HMS Dryad was a fifth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy that served for 64 years, at first during the Napoleonic Wars and then in the suppression of slavery. She fought in a notable single-ship action in 1805 when she captured the Proserpine, an action that would later earn her crew the Naval...

 and HMS Achates intervened. The helpless Clorinde struck after the first cannon shot from Dryad, who towed her to Portsmouth

Portsmouth

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Clorinde was brought into British service as HMS Aurora. She served off South America from 1821, in the Indian Ocean in 1827, and in the Caribbean from 1828

From 1832, she was used as a coal

Coal

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 depot in Falmouth

Falmouth, Cornwall

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, and was eventually broken up in 1851.