French frigate Pomone ( 1787 ) Pomone was a 40 - gun 24 - pounder frigate of the French Navy built in 1783 . The British captured her , along with " Babet " and " Engageante " , off the Île de Batz during the Action of 23 April 1794 . French service . In late September 1793 , " Pomone " served under Captain Dumoutier . She was subsequently recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS " Pomone " mounting 48 guns . Her design inspired that of the " Endymion " - class frigates . " Pomone " had a relatively brief but active career 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 . British service . 1795 . On 6 and 17 January 1795 , " Pomone " , under Captain Sir John Borlase Warren , with " Arethusa " , " Concorde " , " Galatea " and " Diamond " , captured the French vessels " David " and " Ormontaise " , and recaptured the " Phoenix " . On 12 February , " Pomone " put to sea with a squadron comprising The frigates " Anson " , " Artois " and " Galatea " , and the hired lugger " Duke of York " . " Anson " lost her topsail mast in bad weather on the 14th so Warren sent her back to Plymouth . On 18 February the British squadron spotted three French transports . Warren followed them and on the 21st caught up with a convoy of 20 vessels under the escort of a frigate that he believed to be the French frigate " Néréide " . Warren ' s squadron chased the convoy from the lighthouse on Île d ' Oléron half way up the Pertuis D ' Andoche before he had to break off the chase after having captured or destroyed several of the vessels . Then on 26 February the squadron captured a schooner of eight brass guns off the Île de Groix , near Lorient . She was the American - built " Curieuse " ( later corrected to " Coureuse " ) and she was escorting a convoy of three brigs and two luggers . They were sailing from Nantes to Brest with clothing for the Army . Between 13 and 26 February , Warren ' s squadron captured and sent to England the following vessels : the sloop " Petit Jean " , the brig " St . Pierre " , the brig " Deux Frères " , the ship " Petite Magdalène " , the packet boat " De Cayene " , the schooner " Curieuse " ( " Coureuse " ) , the lugger " Liberté " , the lugger " Gloire " , and the brig transport " Biche " . The squadron burned seven vessels : the schooner brig " Désirée " , the brig " Three Friends " , the brig " Trois Frères " , the brig " Guerrier " , the brig " Liberté " , the brig " Espérance " , and the lugger " Patriote " . The British scuttled four brigs : " Graley " , " Jean et Marie " , " Pierre " , and " Anne " . In all , Warren ' s squadron had taken nine prizes and destroyed 11 vessels . On 15 April , Warren and his squadron chased the French privateer " Jean Bart " , of 26 guns and 187 men , off the Île de Ré . " Artois " made the actual capture . The next day " Pomone " , " Artois " , " Anson " and " Galatea " captured two vessels . " Galatea " captured " Expédition " , a corvette of 16 guns and 120 men , which had at one time been a British packet . The British also captured the " Maria François Fidelle " . Off Belle Île , the squadron then caught up with a French convoy . The squadron burned and sank a brig and a sloop that were sailing in ballast . " Artois " captured two sloops with cargoes of fish . Later " Artois " reported that she had chased a ship and a brig from the convoy onto the rocks near the island of Hedic , where they were wrecked . In June , " Pomone " participated at the landing of the ill - conceived and ill - fated Royalist expedition to Quiberon Bay . " Pomone " shared in the prize money for the capture , on 23 June , of the French men of war , " Alexander " , " Formidable " and " Tigre " . On 2 September , " Pomone " burnt the " Rude " , of 12 guns . On 15 October , HMS " Melampus " and HMS " Latona " , and later HMS " Orion " and HMS " Thalia " , and later still " Pomone " and " Concorde " , chased two French frigates , the " Tartu " and " Néréide " , 50 - gun frigate " Forte " and the corvette " Éveillée " . The British ships had to give up the ship of the line and frigates due to the closeness of the shore . However , " Pomone " and the 74 - gun third rate HMS " Thunderer " , which had joined the chase , were able to take the " Éveillée " , of 18 guns , and 100 men . The French force had been out for 60 days and had captured 12 West Indiamen , two of which , " Kent " and " Albion " , the British had already recaptured . " Pomone " and her squadron had recaptured " Kent " on 9 October . " Orion " recaptured " Albion " . Warren ' s squadron returned to England in December with the remnants of the expedition to Quiberon Bay . 1796 . On 6 and 7 March 1796 , the squadron captured the " Sultana " and " Nancy " . Then on 11 and 13 March the squadron captured the " Harmony " , " Sans Peur " and " Agréable " , on the coast of France . On the 15th , " Pomone " captured the 22 - gun corvette " Robuste " , which had a crew of 145 men . She was sailing from Brest to L ' Orient . " Robuste " was taken into service as . Some two weeks later , on 20 March , " Pomone " , " Artois " , " Anson " and " Galatea " engaged a French squadron escorting a convoy near the Bec du Raz . The British captured four brigs from the convoy and Warren instructed the lugger " Valiant " to take them to the nearest port . ( The four brigs were the " Illier " , " Don de Dieu " , " Paul Edward " , and " Félicité " . ) The British squadron then engaged the French warships escorting the convoy but were not able to bring them to a full battle before having to give up the chase due to the onset of dark and the dangerous location . " Galatea " was the only vessel in the British squadron to suffer casualties ; she lost two men killed and six wounded . The store - ship " Etoile " , under the command of " lieutenant de vaisseau " Mathurin - Théodore Berthelin , struck . She was armed with thirty 12 - pounder guns and had a crew of 160 men . Four French frigates , a corvette , a brig and the rest of the convoy escaped . Another small convoy fell to Warren ' s squadron on 7 April also near the Bec du Raz . The squadron captured four brigs and a sloop , four of which they sent in to England . One brig they scuttled . All were carrying flour and corn . One sloop escaped , as did the aviso " Voltigeur " , of 16 guns , which was escorting the convoy . The four captured vessels were the " Marie " , " Union " , " Bonne " and a brig of unknown name . On 18 April the squadron captured the " Jean Marie " . On 25 May " Pomone " captured the French privateer " Fantaisie " , of 14 guns and 75 men , near Morlaix . She was only one day out of port and had not captured anything . Commodore Warren ' s squadron , including " Pomone " , ran the 44 - gun French frigate " Andromaque " ashore on 23 August near the river Gironde . Boats from " Galatea " and the " Artois " then boarded her . Some of her crew had endeavored to get to shore , many drowning in the surf in the attempt . Warren ' s squadron took on board the captain , a number of the officers , many of her crew , and a number of Portuguese prisoners from two vessels that the French squadron to which " Andromaque " had belonged had taken . The 18 - gun brig " Sylph " then destroyed the French vessel with gunfire . Between 9 August and 10 September Warren ' s squadron captured or destroyed a number of small merchant vessels as well as the " Andromache " . These were : All these were burnt at the mouth of the Garonne . The remaining three were captured . On 2 November " Thalia " and " Artois " were in a chase that " Pomone " joined . " Artois " finally caught their quarry about 11 leagues from Ushant . The quarry turned out to be the " Franklin " , armed with 12 6 - pounder guns and with a crew of 100 men . 1797 . Between 24 January and 7 March , Warren ' s squadron sank or burnt four French vessels and two Spanish vessels . The French vessels were the sloops " Providence " and " Intrépide " , the brig " Jenée " and another brig of unknown name . The Spanish vessels were the brigs " Santa Theresa " and the " St Jago de Compostella " . In July , " Pomone " and Warren ' s squadron intercepted a convoy in Hodierne Bay consisting of 14 cargo vessels with a frigate , a ship , a corvette and a brig as escorts . The British drove the French 36 - gun frigate " Calliope " onshore and holed her hull with gunfire , " Sylph " being particularly aggressive . The brig they sank with gunfire also . They burnt the " Freedom " , a large British - built ship armed en flute and laden with squared timber . The French had run her onshore and the crew , with the wounded , had gotten away in their boats . The British also captured eight vessels : A few days later , boats from the squadron destroyed two French merchant ships , the brig " Fidèle " and the sloop " Henri " , also in Hodierne Bay . The next day the squadron captured the " Boston " . In August , the squadron destroyed one French vessel and captured another . On 28 August , the squadron chased and captured vessels from a French convoy . 1798 . On 5 January , " Pomone " was 94 leagues off Ushant when she encountered a large ship which she pursued . In the haze , the quarry underestimated " Pomone " s size and armament and opened fire . The two vessels exchanged several broadsides before the quarry struck . She was the French privateer " Chéri " , from Nantes , and was armed with a mix of twenty - six 12 , 18 and 24 - pounder guns . She had a crew of 230 men under the command of Mons . Chaffin . The engagement cost " Pomone " one man killed and four wounded , plus damage to masts and rigging . " Chéri " had 12 men killed and 22 wounded , and had lost her mizzen mast and all sails , and had taken several holes to her hull as well . Reynolds took her in tow and sent over his carpenter to plug the holes when she started to sink . He sent over " Pomone " s boats and they were able to get everyone off " Chéri " , including the wounded , before she sank . Six days later , " Pomone " captured the French privateer " Emprunt Fossé " , of two guns , in the Channel . On 18 May " Pomone " recaptured the West Indiaman " Minerva " , of Liverpool . She had been a prize to the French privateer brig " Argus " , of Bordeaux . 1799 . On 3 April , " Pomone " had the good fortune to meet " Argus " after capture her after a pursuit of 108 miles that hit 12 knots an hour . " Argus " was only six months old and was pierced for 22 guns , though she carried 18 brass 9 - pounders . In addition to the " Minerva " , " Argus " had captured to brigs from Teignmouth whose masters and crews were aboard her . ' " Argus " had a crew of 90 men . Six days later " Pomone " recaptured an American schooner that had been sailing from Caracas to A Coruña with a cargo of cocoa and indigo . She had had the misfortune to meet the French privateer " Gironde " on 1 April . Earlier , " Pomone " had captured two vessels of Cartagena , Spain , the French privateer " Mucius Scaevola " , of Genoa , and a Spanish coaster . In April " Pomone " returned to Plymouth after having convoyed three ordnance transports to Minorca . She then went in for a refit . 1801 . On 3 August , while cruising off the west side of Elba during the Siege of Porto Ferrajo , " Pomone " , Captain Edward Leveson - Gower commanding , took another prize , the " Carrère " , of 44 guns and 356 men . " Pomone " lost two men dead and three wounded , one of whom died of wounds shortly thereafter . Less than a month later , on 2 September , the frigates " Phoenix " , " Minerve " and " Pomone " recaptured " Success " and destroyed the 46 - gun frigate " Bravoure " . ( The French had captured " Success " , a 32 - gun frigate , in February , off Toulon . ) In the middle of the month , men from " Pomone " were involved in operations ashore at Portoferraio , Elba . In April " Pomone " and escorted a convoy to the Mediterranean . She returned to Portsmouth on 16 July and then on 23 July sailed with a number of other ships for Lymington and Jersey to collect Dutch troops they were to carry to Cuxhaven . Fate . On 23 September 1802 , " Pomone " struck a rock while entering St . Aubin ' s Bay and sank . She was refloated and towed into Portsmouth in October but was not worth repairing . A court martial on 27 October on 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 to imprisonment in the Marshalsea for three months . " Pomone " was broken up in 1803 .