The Chiffonne was a 38-gun Heureuse class frigate of the French Navy. She was built at Nantes and launched on 31 August 1799.
Class and type: Heureuse class frigate
Displacement: 921 tons
Length: 44.2 metres
Beam: 11.2 metres
Draught: 5.8 metres
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: French service: 250 men
Armament: French service:
UD: 28 x 12-pounder guns
QD: 8 x 8-pounder guns and 4 x 36-pounder carronades
Fc: 4 x 8-pounder guns
British service:
UD:26 x 12-pounder guns
QD: 9 x 9-pounder guns
Fc: 12 x 32-pounder carronades
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 sort 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 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 she 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.
The British commissioned her in 1802 in the East Indies under Capt. 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 was fitted at Woolwich in 1803 and recommissioned for service in the North Sea and the coast of Spain, where she served from 1803 to 1807.
On 5 August 1803 Chiffone, Ethalion and Cruizer captured Flore. The next day Chiffonne and Ethalion captured the John of Workington. Then on 20 June Chiffonne captured the Zeeluft.
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 Falcon, Clinker, Steady, and the hired armed cutter Frances.
She sailed for the East Indies in May 1808. In November 1809, under Captain John Wainwright, she and Caroline, 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 dhows, together with much in the way of naval stores. Chiffonne's casualties amounted to two men wounded.
In November she and Caroline destroyed the Persian towns of Linga and Laft on Qeshm Island. She 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 exertions against the pirates.
In November 1810, Chiffonne rescued the crew of Mandarin , which had wrecked on Red Island, near Singapore.
Fate
Chiffone returned to Portsmouth in 1811. The Navy Office offered her for sale in July 1814, and was sold to be broken up later that year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Chiffone_(1801)
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