HMS Surprise (1796)
As Unité
- 24 × 8-pounder guns
- 8 × 4-pounder guns
As HMS Surprise
- 24 × 32-pounder carronades
- 10 × 32-pounder carronades
- 2 × 4-pounder guns as chasers
Unité was a corvette of the French Navy built in 1794, the lead ship of her class. She was captured by the Royal Navy in 1796 and renamed HMS Surprise. In 1799 she famously recaptured HMS Hermione and in 1802 was sold out of the service.
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Famous quotes containing the word surprise:
“Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of being created so as to understand them to some degree.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)