HMS Decade (1798)
Decade | |
| History | |
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| 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 & type | Galathée-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,150 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen | 914 77⁄94 (bm) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 38 ft (11.6 m) |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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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.