French frigate Immortalité (1795)

	Capture of Immortalité by HMS Fisgard
History
France
Name	Immortalité; (English: 'Immortality');
Builder	Brest, France
Laid down	May 1794
Launched	7 January 1795
In service	February 1795
Fate	Captured by HMS Fisgard; on 20 October 1798;
United Kingdom
Name	Immortalite
Acquired	20 October 1798
Fate	Broken up in July 1806
General characteristics
Class and type	Romaine class frigate
Displacement	700 tonnes
Length	45.5 m (149 ft)
Beam	11.8 m (39 ft)
Draught	5 m (16 ft)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	40 guns:; 24 24-pounders; 16 8-pounders;
Armour	Timber

The Immortalité was a Romaine class frigate of the French Navy.

She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, and was captured shortly after the Battle of Tory Island by HMS Fisgard. She was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Immortalite and had an active career on the Home Station before being broken up in July 1806.

External links

The Naval History of Great Britain, 1793 - 1820, Volumes II and III, William James, R. Bentley, London, 1837.