HMS Pompee (1793)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of HMS Pompee (1793), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Pompée
Namesake	Pompey
Builder	Toulon shipyard
Laid down	January 1790
Launched	28 May 1791
Commissioned	February 1793
Captured	29 August 1793
Great Britain
Name	HMS Pompee
Acquired	29 August 1793
Reclassified	Prison hulk in Portsmouth in 1816
Fate	Broken up in January 1817
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,9018⁄94 (bm)
Length	182 ft 2 in (55.52 m) (gundeck) 148 ft 7+3⁄4 in (45.307 m) (keel)
Beam	49 ft 0+1⁄2 in (14.948 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft 10+1⁄2 in (6.668 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	640
Armament	French service: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16  × 8-pounder long guns 4  × 36-pounder obusiers British service: Lower deck: 30 × 32-pounder guns Upper deck: 30 × 18-pounder guns QD: 12 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 4 × 32-pounder carronades Roundhouse: 8 ×18-pounder carronades

HMS Pompee was a 74-gun ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. Built as Pompée, a Téméraire-class ship of the French Navy, she was handed over to the British at Spithead by French royalists who had fled France^[1] after the Siege of Toulon (September–December 1793) by the French Republic, only a few months after being completed. After reaching Great Britain, Pompée was registered and recommissioned as HMS Pompee and spent the entirety of her active career with the Royal Navy until she was broken up in 1817.