For other ships with the same name, see French ship Désirée.
Désirée was a Romaine-classfrigate of the French Navy, launched at Dunkirk in 1794. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1800 and took her into service under her existing name. she was laid up in 1815, converted to a slop ship in 1823, and sold in 1832.
Desiree shared with Britomart in the proceeds of the capture on 5 January 1810 of Lynboom, Myden, master.[5]
On 7 May 1813, she was under the command of Captain Arthur Farquarh when she captured the American schooner Decatur.[a]
On 17 July 1813 she captured the French privateer Esperance.[b]
Fateedit
Desiree was laid up at Sheerness in August 1815. Between January and November 1823 she was fitted as a slop ship. She was sold for £2,020 on 22 August 1832 to Joseph Christie at Rotherhithe.[2]
Notesedit
^A first-class share of the prize money was worth £187 11s 3½d; a sixth-class share, that of an ordinary seaman, was worth £1 12s 5¼d.[6]
^A first-class share of the head money paid in October 1832 was worth £12 3s 6½d; a sixth-class share was worth 1s 1½d.[7]
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN978-1-86176-246-7.
Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN978-1-84832-204-2.
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