HMS Matilda (1794)

History
France
Name	Bonheur
Builder	Louis & Antoine Crucy and Jean Baudet, Basse-Indre[2]
Laid down	June 1793[1]
Launched	30 March 1794
Renamed	Jacobine (November 1793)
Fate	Captured October 1794
Great Britain
Name	HMS Matilda
Acquired	By capture 30 October 1794
Fate	Broken up August 1810
General characteristics [3]
Tons burthen	573 (bm)
Length	129 ft 3 in (39.4 m) (overall); 105 ft 5 in (32.1 m) (keel)
Beam	32 ft 10 in (10.0 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft 10 in (3.0 m)
Complement	French service:223[2] British service:180
Armament	French service:22 × 12-pounder guns British service:28 × 8-pounder guns

HMS Matilda was the French corvette Jacobine (or Jacobin), which was launched in March 1794 and which the British captured in the West Indies seven months later. Matilda served in the West Indies until 1799, capturing six small privateers. In 1799 she sailed to Woolwich where she became a hospital ship. Between 1805 and 1807 she was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Henry Stanhope. She was broken up in 1810.