HMS Babet (1794)

The capture of Engageante, Babet and Pomone, by Thomas Whitcombe
History
France
Name	Babet
Builder	Pierre Mauger[2]
Laid down	September 1792
Launched	12 February 1793[1]
Commissioned	May 1793
Captured	By April 1794
Great Britain
Name	HMS Babet
Acquired	April 1794 by capture
Commissioned	December 1794
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "23rd June 1795"[3]
Fate	Lost at sea in October/November 1800
General characteristics [4]
Class and type	20-gun sixth-rate post ship
Type	Prompte-clas corvette
Displacement	603 tons (French)[1]
Tons burthen	511 1⁄94 (bm)
Length	119 ft 1 in (36.3 m) (overall) 91 ft 8 in (27.9 m) (keel)
Beam	31 ft 1 in (9.5 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft 4+1⁄2 in (2.9 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
General characteristics (French service)
Complement	some 178 men (c. 200 at capture)[5]
Armament	Originally: 20 to 26 × 8-pounder guns[6] Later: 20 or 22 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 4-pounder guns[1] At capture: 22 × 9-pounder guns[5]
General characteristics (British service[4]
Complement	165 men (later 170)
Armament	UD: 20 × 9-pounder guns QD: 6 × 12-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 12-pounder carronades

HMS Babet was a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship of the British Royal Navy. She had previously been a corvette of the French Navy under the name Babet, until her capture in 1794, during the French Revolutionary Wars. She served with the British, capturing several privateers and other vessels, and was at the Battle of Groix. She disappeared in the Caribbean in 1800, presumably having foundered.