The Incorruptible was a Romaine class frigate

Romaine class frigate

The Romaine class was a class of nine 42-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1794 by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. They were originally designated as "bomb-frigates" and were intended to carry a main armament of twenty 24-pounder guns and a 12-inch mortar. Experience quickly led to the...

 of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

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On 15 July 1796, under captain Bescond, she fought against the 56-gun HMS Glatton

HMS Glatton (1795)

HMS Glatton was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched as the Glatton, an East Indiaman, on 29 November 1792 by Wells & Co. of Blackwell. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795 and converted her into a warship. Glatton was unusual in that for a time she was the only ship-of-the-line...

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In 1800, she was involved in the battle of Dunkirk

Raid on Dunkirk (1800)

The Raid on Dunkirk of 7 July 1800 was an attack by a British Royal Navy force on the well defended French anchorage of Dunkirk in the English Channel during the French Revolutionary Wars...

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In January 1805, she was sent to observe British movements off Toulon, along with Hortense

French frigate Hortense (1803)

The Hortense was a 40-gun Hortense Class frigate of the French Navy.In January 1805, she was sent to observe British movements off Toulon, along with Incorruptible. On 4 February, they attacked a convoy, destroying 7 ships...

. On 4 February, they attacked a convoy, destroying 7 ships. Three days later, they encountered the convoy escorted by the 20-gun sloop HMS Arrow

HMS Arrow

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Arrow, after the projectile:, a 20-gun sloop purchased in 1796, but captured by the French frigates Incorruptible and Hortense near Gibraltar on 4 February 1805., a 14-gun cutter launched at Deptford Dockyard on 7 September 1805, and converted to a...

 and the 8-gun bomb vessel

Bomb vessel

A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannon —although bomb vessels carried a few cannon for self-defence—but rather mortars mounted forward near the bow and elevated to a high angle, and projecting their fire in a...

 ; the two Royal Navy were destroyed, and 3 ships of the convoy captured.

In May 1807, Incorruptible, Annibal, Pomone

French frigate Pomone (1805)

The Pomone was a 40-gun Hortense-class frigate of the French Navy, built at Genoa for the puppet government of the Ligurian Republic, which was annexed as part of France in June 1805, a month after the Pomone was completed...

and the corvette Victorieuse engaged off Cabrera in the Mediterranean.