HMS Hinchinbrook (1778)

HMS Hinchinbrook (1778)

Gun deck: 24 x 9-pounder guns

HMS Hinchinbrook was the French privateer Astrée, which the British captured in 1778 and took into the Royal Navy as a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate. She was Captain Horatio Nelson's second navy command, after the brig HMS Badger, and his first as post-captain. She was wrecked, with no loss of life, in January 1783.