page_title: French frigate Sensible (1788)
section_title: Royal Navy service
hierarchical_section_title: French frigate Sensible (1788) / Royal Navy service
caption_attribution_description: English: A watercolour of an engagement between a French and a British frigate on 27 June 1798, by an unknown artist (W.R.?)
context_page_description: Sensible was a 32-gun Magicienne-class frigate of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1798 off Malta and took into service as HMS Sensible. She was lost in a grounding off Ceylon in 1802.
context_section_description: Sensible was placed under Commander John Baker Hay, who received his promotion to post captain in September. She was named and registered on 13 October. She arrived at Portsmouth on 25 November. There she was fitted as a troopship between June and August 1799. She was commissioned in July under Captain Robert Sauce. Sensible shared with Sheerness and Resource in the proceeds of the recapture, on 11 July 1800, of the Piersons.
  On 14 May 1801, Sensible landed troops in Abu Qir Bay. Because Sensible served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.
caption: Capture of La Sensible on 27 June 1798 by the frigate Sea Horse
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