French corvette Perçante (1795)

History
France
NamePerçante
Namesake"Piercing"
Laid downSeptember 1793
LaunchedJune 1795
Captured7 August 1798
Great Britain
NameHMS Jamaica
AcquiredBy capture February 1796
Honours &
awards		Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Copenhagen"
FateSold 1814
General characteristics
Class & typeBonne Citoyenne-class corvette
Type
  • Ship-corvette in French service
  • Sixth-rate post ship in British service
Tons burthen5148⁄94 bm
Length
  • 119 ft 8+1⁄2 in (36.5 m) (overall)
  • 100 ft 6+7⁄8 in (30.7 m) (keel)
Beam31 ft 0 in (9.4 m)
Depth of hold8 ft 5+1⁄2 in (2.6 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement
  • French service: 200
  • British service: 155
Armament
  • French service:
  • 20 × 8-pounder guns + 6 × brass 2-pounder guns
  • British service:
  • Upper deck: 20 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 12-pounder carronades

Perçante was a 20-gun corvette of the French Navy built at Bayonne and launched in 1795. The British captured her in 1796 and took her into the Royal Navy under the name HMS Jamaica. Rated as a 26-gun sixth-rate post ship, she served during in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, during which she captured several privateers and participated in a boat attack. The British Admiralty had her laid up in 1810 and sold her in 1814.

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