Английская Википедия:French frigate Hortense (1803)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHortense was a 40-gun Шаблон:Sclass and lead vessel of her class of the French Navy.
In January 1805, under the command of Captain Delamarre de Lamellerie, she and Шаблон:Ship were sent to observe British movements off Toulon. On 4 February they attacked a convoy, destroying seven ships. Three days later, they encountered another convoy escorted by the 20-gun sloop Шаблон:HMS and the 8-gun bomb vessel Шаблон:HMS; the French frigates destroyed the two Royal Navy vessels and captured and burnt Шаблон:Ship and two other merchant vessels of the convoy.
Then on 12 May 1805, Hortense and Шаблон:Ship captured the 18-gun ship-sloop Шаблон:HMS. Cyane was cruising between Barbados and Martinique when she encountered a French fleet under Admiral Villeneuve. Hortense and Hermione so out-gunned Cyane that her captain, Commander George Cadogan, had no choice but to strike his colours.[1]
Hortense took part in the Battle of Cape Finisterre, in the Battle of Trafalgar and in Lamellerie's expedition.
In 1814, she was renamed to Flore.
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- ↑ Hepper (1994), p. 111.
