page_title: HMS Dryad (1795)
section_title: Capture of Clorinde (1814)
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Dryad (1795) / Napoleonic Wars / Capture of Clorinde (1814)
caption_attribution_description: English: Capture of La Clorinde, Thomas Whitcombe, 1 Mar 1817, in the collection of the National Maritime Museum.
context_page_description: HMS Dryad was a fifth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy that served for 64 years, at first during the Napoleonic Wars and then in the suppression of slavery. She fought in a notable single-ship action in 1805 when she captured the French frigate Proserpine, an action that would later earn her crew the Naval General Service Medal. Dryad was broken up at Portsmouth in 1860.
context_section_description: While returning from Newfoundland in company with the 16-gun brig-sloop Achates, on 26 February Dryad came across the damaged French frigate Clorinde, which had attempted to escape Eurotas after a hard-fought battle the previous day. Eurotas had twenty men and officers killed and forty wounded; the French estimated their losses at 120 men. Captain John Phillimore of Eurotas was among those listed as severely wounded. Clorinde was under the command of Captain Dennis Legard, mounted forty-four guns and four brass swivel guns in each top, and had had a crew of 360 men.
  In his letter of report, Phillimore observed that the approach of Dryad and Achates was "to the great mortification of every one on board", because Eurotas had spent all night setting up a jury-rig, and the Prize Rules meant that all ships in sight shared in the prize money. After a single cannon shot, Clorinde surrendered to Dryad, which towed her into Portsmouth.  The Royal Navy took Clorinde into service as Aurora.
caption: Capture of La Clorinde, by Thomas Whitcombe, 1 March 1817, in the collection of the National Maritime Museum.
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