page_title: French frigate Pomone (1787)
section_title: Fate
hierarchical_section_title: French frigate Pomone (1787) / Fate
caption_attribution_description: English: Pomone (1794) No scale. Plan showing the midship section for the Pomone (1794), a 44 gun, Fifth Rate, Frigate, as taken off at Portsmouth Dockyard. The plan illustrates the damaged sustained to the hull framing after having been wrecked at St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey. NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 582 states that 'Pomone' (1794) arrived at Portsmouth Dockyard on 22 October 1802 and was docked on 10 November 1802. She was taken to pieces on 13 December 1802. section, midship
context_page_description: Pomone was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1785. The British captured her off the Île de Batz in April 1794 and incorporated her into the Royal Navy. Pomone subsequently had a relatively brief but active career in the British Navy off the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of France before suffering sufficient damage from hitting a rock to warrant being taken out of service and then broken up in 1803.
context_section_description: On 23 September 1802, Pomone struck a rock while entering St. Aubin's Bay and sank.  HMS Starling shuttled back and forth between Portsmouth and Jersey bringing back stores and taking out artificers. Pomone was refloated and towed into Portsmouth in October but was not worth repairing. On 31 October HMS Alonzo arrived from Jersey with more stores.
  A court martial on 27 October on Neptune in Portsmouth Harbour, tried the pilot, John Geram, for her loss. The court ruled that he should not have attempted to enter the bay at night as he could have safely waited at sea until daylight. The court fined him all pay and allowances due to him for his services as pilot on Pomone and sentenced him to imprisonment in the Marshalsea for three months.
  Pomone was broken up in 1803.
caption: A plan taken off at Portsmouth Dockyard, illustrating the damage sustained to the hull framing after having been wrecked at St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey
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