French frigate Chiffone ( 1800 ) The Chiffonne was a 38 - gun " Heureuse " class frigate of the French Navy . She was built at Nantes and launched in 1799 . The British Royal Navy captured her in 1801 . In 1809 she participated in a campaign against pirates in the Persian Gulf . She was sold for breaking up in 1814 . French service . On 11 July 1801 , " Chiffone " , under the command of Captain Pierre Guiyesse arrived at Mahé , Seychelles from the port of St Nazaire with 33 deportees under sentence of exile from France . The exiles had been involved in the Plot of the Rue Saint - Nicaise against Napoleon . On 15 May , off Brazil , she captured a Portuguese schooner . Three days later she captured Brazilian frigate named the " Hirondelle " , armed en flute . " Hirondelle " ( or possibly " Andorhina " ) was armed with twenty - four 24 - pounder carronades and put up a short fight . Guiyesse had her guns thrown overboard , took her stores ( cables , spare rigging and sails ) , and then released her officers and crew under parole . On 16 June , " Chiffone " captured the East Indiaman " Bellona " on her way from Bengal to London . In taking " Bellone " , " Chiffone " had her mizzen mast crippled . A prize crew under Ensign Jean - Michel Mahé took " Bellona " to Mauritius where she arrived a month later . On 19 August the HMS " Sibylle " , Captain Charles Adam , chased her off Mahé , Seychelles . At the time of the British attack " Chiffone " was at anchor and aided her defense by constructing a battery using some of her forecastle guns and heating the shot . Guieyesse attempted to avoid capture by beaching " Chiffonne " , but the British captured her the next day . She had lost 23 men killed and 30 wounded ; " Sybille " lost two men killed and one wounded . She was brought into British service as HMS " Chiffonne " . When Adams arrived in Madras with his prize the insurance company there presented him with a sword worth guineas , while the merchants of Calcutta later too presented him with a sword and a piece of plate . British service . The British commissioned " Chiffone " in 1802 in the East Indies under Captain Henry Stuart . In July 1802 she carried despatches to Calcutta with the reports of the murder of the Persian ambassador Haji Khalil Khan in Bombay . She returned to England and was fitted at Woolwich in 1803 . Captain Charles Adam ( late of " Sibylle " ) took command of " Chiffone " on 23 May 1803 and recommissioned her for service in the North Sea and the coast of Spain , where she served from 1803 to 1807 . On 5 August 1803 " Chiffone " , and captured " Flore " . The next day " Chiffonne " and " Ethalion " captured the " John " , of Workington . Then on 20 June " Chiffonne " captured the " Zeeluft " . In October " Chiffone " was under the command of Captain Patrick Campbell , perhaps temporarily . On 10 June 1804 , " Chiffone " and consorts engaged French gunboats . Then on 20 June " Chiffonne " captured another " Zeeluft " , or at least a vessel by that name and with a different master than that of the previous year . " Chiffonne " was in company with , , , and the hired armed cutter " Frances " . On 10 June 1805 , " Chiffone " , with " Falcon " , " Clinker " , and " Frances " chased a French convoy for nine hours until it took shelter under the guns of Fécamp . The convoy consisted of two corvettes ( " Foudre " under " Capitaine de vaisseau " Jacques - Felix - Emmanuel Hemelin , and " Audacieuse " , under Lieutenant Dominique Roquebert ) , four large gunvessels and eight others , and 14 transports . The British suffered some casualties from gunfire from shore batteries . The British suffered some casualties , with " Chiffone " , which had borne the brunt of the firing , lost two men killed and three wounded . In May 1806 " Chiffone " was under the command of John Wainwright . On 14 June " Chiffone " , which had returned to Portsmouth , sailed for Cadiz , carrying General Sir John Moore and Admiral Purvis , who had raised his flag on her . At Cadiz Purvis transferred his flag to and " Chiffone " proceeded to Gibraltar . From there , on 5 July , she sailed to Messina in company with , , and nineteen transports , supply vessels and merchant vessels , arriving on 7 August . At some point in early 1807 , boats from " Chiffone " and cut out a brig and a schooner under the guns of a 4 - gun battery on the south coast of Spain . She sailed for the East Indies in May 1808 . About a year and a half later , on 13 September 1809 , " Chiffone " was in the port of Bombay when the ship " Ardaseer " caught fire . Mr . Kempt , the chief officer hailed the warships around her for help , and Wainright responded with 100 men , buckets , and an " engine " . Despite their efforts , those of the crew , and those of men from the other British warships in the port , the " Ardaseer " could not be saved . Then in November , she and , together with a number of East Indiamen , participated in the campaign to eradicate piracy in the Persian Gulf , centered on Ras al - Khaimah . In an attack the British began with a cannonade of the town and followed with a ground attack . The destroyed about some vessels , 30 of them very large dhow s , together with much in the way of naval stores . " Chiffonne " s casualties amounted to two men wounded . She and " Caroline " destroyed the Persian towns of Linga and Laft on Qeshm Island . " Chiffone " also destroyed 20 vessels , nine of them large dhows at Linga and eleven , nine of them large dhows , at Laft . This time the resistance on shore was more intense and " Chiffone " lost one man killed and 17 wounded out of total British casualties ( including men from the East India Company ' s vessels ) , of two killed and 27 wounded . In January 1810 " Chiffonne " and " Caroline " carried Shenaz , which had rebelled against Sultan Sa ' id of Oman and which they restored to him . Syyed Sa ' id presented Wainwright with a scimitar in recognition of his efforts against the pirates . In November , " Chiffonne " rescued the crew of , which had wrecked on Red Island , near Singapore . Fate . " Chiffone " returned to Portsmouth in 1811 . She was laid up there , but then repaired in 1812 . In 1813 to 1814 she was in ordinary . The Navy Office offered her for sale in July 1814 . She was sold for breaking up for £1 , 700 at Portsmouth on 1 September 1814 .