page_title: French frigate Prudente (1790)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: French frigate Prudente (1790) / Career
caption_attribution_description: Prudente
context_page_description: The Prudente was a 32-gun Capricieuse-class frigate of the French Navy.
context_section_description: In 1791, under lieutenant Villaret de Joyeuse, she was tasked with ferrying troops to Cap-Français and with police duty in Santo Domingo. In 1793, she returned to France, escorting a convoy from Terre-Neuve, under Villaret de Joyeuse, by then promoted to Captain.
  In 1794, she was the flagship of a frigate division under Captain Renaud, also comprising Cybèle, under Pierre Julien Tréhouart. She took part in the Sunda Strait campaign of January 1794 and in the Action of 22 October 1794 off Ile de France. During the Sunda Strait campaign the squadron captured the East Indiaman Pigot.
  In 1796, Prudente was attached to the squadron under Sercey, that had come from France.
  She served for a time at Mauritius, taking part in the Action of 8 September 1796, before being sold and becoming a privateer.
caption: Watercolour portrait of Prudente, by François Roux, commissioned by Willaumez.
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