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''Sensible'' was a 32-gun ''Magicienne''-class frigate of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1798 off Malta and took into service as HMS ''Sensible''. She was lost in a grounding off Ceylon in 1802. ==French Navy service== From November 1789, she served at Martinique under ''captaine de vaisseau'' Durand de Braye (or Durand d'Ubraye).〔Fonds, Vol. 1, p.24.〕 In September 1790, she ferried Joséphine de Beauharnais and her daughter Hortense from Martinique to Toulon. In 1792, she took part in operations against Sardinia. In 1793, she was equipped as a bomb ship. On 9 December 1795, ''Sensible'' was part of Gantaume's squadron. ''Sensible'', along with the corvettes ''Sardine'' and ''Rossignol'', captured the 28-gun in the neutral port of Smyrna. The French warships entered the harbour in disregard of its neutrality and forced ''Nemesis'' to surrender. Murray Maxwell (then a midshipman) was taken prisoner on this occasion. Under ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' (later ''capitaine de frégate'') Escoffier, in March–April 1795 ''Sensible'' crossed the Aegean Sea, stopping at Tunis and Valletta on her way to Toulon.〔Fonds, Vol. 1, p.173.〕 The next year she came under the command of ''capitaine de frégate'' Guillaume-François-Joseph Bourdé.〔Quintin, p.79.〕 He sailed ''Sensible'' from Toulon to Trieste via Corfu. She then cruised the Adriatic before returning to Corfu.〔Fonds, Vol. 1, p.190.〕 ''Sensible'' was subsequently armed en flûte and used as a transport in the Mediterranean. In an action on 27 June 1798, the 38-gun HMS ''Seahorse'' captured her. ''Sensible'' lost 25 men killed and 55 wounded.〔 ''Seahorse'' had two men killed and 16 men wounded; the British report is that ''Sensible'' lost 18 men killed and 35 wounded, including Bourdé. Captain Edward James Foote of ''Seahorse'' further reported that ''Sensible'' had recently received copper sheathing and fastening, and a thorough repair at Toulon two months previously. At the time of her capture ''Sensible'' was carrying General of Division Baraguey D'Hilliers, with his entourage. They were going to Toulon with a report on the capture of Malta. The British took her into service as HMS ''Sensible''.〔 The French Navy suspended Captain Bourdé on 31 July on suspicion of not having resisted adequately, and court-martialed him on 20 May 1799 for the loss of his ship. Acquitted, he was reinstated on 21 August.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French frigate Sensible (1788)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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