French ship Éole (1799)
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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Éole and HMS Nimrod.
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".[9] 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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History | |
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France | |
Name | Éole |
Namesake | Aeolus |
Builder | Bordeaux[1] |
Commissioned | As a privateer in 1797[2] |
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,[3] 342,[4] 345,[5][6] or 395, or 398 by calc.[lower-alpha 1] (bm) |
Length | 30.9 m (101 ft) |
Beam | 8.85 m (29 ft 0 in) |
Complement | |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
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