HMS Gaiete ( 1797 ) HMS " Gaiete " ( also " Gayette " ) was a French " Bonne Citoyenne " - class corvette that the British frigate captured off Bermuda in 1797 . She then served the Royal Navy until she was sold in 1808 . Capture . " Gaité " initially sailed from Bayonne to Rochefort . She then received the mission to carry passengers and supplies to Cayenne . Her mission completed , she proceeded to patrol the Antilles . At daybreak on 10 August 1797 44 - gun " Arethusa " , under the command of Captain Thomas Wolley , was in the Atlantic Ocean at when she sighted three ships to windward . At 7 : 30 a . m . one of the ships bore down to within half gun - shot , and opened fire . She proved to be the 20 - gun " Gaieté " , under the command of " Enseigne de vaisseau " Jean - François Guignier . She had been out of Cayenne about four weeks when she encountered " Arethusa " . With " Gaieté " having taken on a ship twice her size , there could only be one outcome . The British captured " Gaieté " within half an hour after she had sustained considerable damage to her sails and rigging , and lost two seamen killed and eight wounded , among whom Ensign Dubourdieu . " Arethusa " lost one seaman killed , and the captain ' s clerk and two seamen wounded . The French brig observed the engagement and then sailed away . The Royal Navy captured " Espoir " in September , in the Mediterranean . Royal Navy service . " Gaiete " was commissioned into the Royal Navy in June 1798 under Commander Edward Durnford King for service in the North Sea . IN 1799 she was serving in the Channel . On 4 March 1799 she sailed for Jamaica . She and the frigate " Unite " left Portsmouth as escorts to a convoy for the West Indies . Next , " Gaiete " captured the brig " Rose " on 7 April . Then on 11 January 1800 " Gaiete " captured the sloop " Santa Christa " . Between February and May 1800 , " Gaiete " captured or detained several vessels : On 22 August , " Gaiete " captured the " Petite Fortuné " ( alias " Fortuna " ) . In late 1800 , after Durnford King was promoted to Acting - Captain of Commander Richard Peacocke became captain . Peacocke received a promotion to post captain on 4 June 1801 . In April 1802 , " Gaite " was at Dominica with the 74 - gun ships and , and the frigate to assist in suppressing a mutiny that had broken out on 9 April in the 8th West India Regiment . The soldiers had killed three officers , imprisoned the others and taken over Fort Shirley . On the following day , " HMS Magnificent " , which was anchored in Prince Rupert ' s Bay under Captain John Giffard ' s command sent a party of marines ashore to restore order . The mutineers fired upon the " Magnificent " with no effect . On 12 April , Governor Cochrane entered Fort Shirley with the Royal Scots Regiment and the 68th Regiment of Foot . The rebels were drawn up on the Upper Battery of Fort Shirley with three of their officers as prisoners and presented arms to the other troops . They obeyed Cochrane ' s command to ground their arms but refused his order to step forward . The mutineers picked up their arms and fired a volley . Shots were returned , followed by a bayonet charge that broke their ranks and a close range fire fight ensued . Those mutineers who tried to escape over the precipice to the sea were exposed to grape - shot and canister fire from " Magnificent " . Fate . By 1807 " Gaiete " was in ordinary at Blackwall . The ship was offered for sale at Woolwich Dockyard on 8 July 1808 , and sold on 21 July .