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.
Read more about HMS Surprise (1796): Construction, French Service, Capture By The Royal Navy, Recapture of HMS Hermione, Surprise in Fiction
Famous quotes containing the word surprise:
“Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,—being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)