HMS Pique

HMS Pique was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had formerly served with the French Navy, initially as the Fleur-de-Lys, and later as the Pique. HMS Blanche captured her in 1795 in a battle that left the Blanche's commander, Captain Robert Faulknor, dead. HMS Pique was taken into service under her only British captain, David Milne, but served for just three years with the Royal Navy before being wrecked in an engagement with the French ship Seine in 1798. The Seine had been spotted heading for a French port and Pique and another British ship gave chase. All three ships ran aground after a long and hard-fought pursuit. The arrival of a third British ship ended French resistance, but while the Seine and Jason were both refloated, attempts to save Pique failed; she bilged and had to be abandoned.

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Pique
Galathée-class frigate, fifth-rate frigate, French Navy, Royal Navy, France, 

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1795 HMS Pique

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keel laying

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Frameless

Pointe de la Tranche, 1798 RCIN 735064.c

Thomas Baines (1820-1875) - Action Between HMS 'Blanche' and the 'Pique', 5 January 1795 - BHC0478 - Royal Museums Greenwich

Ralph Dodd - The Capture Of The French Frigate 'La Pique' By Her Majesty's Frigate 'Blanche' Etc.Etc

Pointe de la Tranche, 1798 RCIN 735065

John Thomas Baines - Action between HMS 'Blanche' and the 'Pique', 5 January 1795

The death of Robert Faulknor, he is shot while lashing the French enemy ship to his own ship. Etching and engraving by W. Bromley and C. Blackberd, 1801, after T. Stothard Wellcome V0006914

HMS Blanche and Pique

HMS Jason and the Seine

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Three Decks page@		Wikidata
commons	image		Pointe de la Tranche, 1798 RCIN 735064.c		Commons
commons	image		Thomas Baines (1820-1875) - Action Between HMS 'Blanche' and the 'Pique', 5 January 1795 - BHC0478 - Royal Museums Greenwich		Commons
commons	image		Ralph Dodd - The Capture Of The French Frigate 'La Pique' By Her Majesty's Frigate 'Blanche' Etc.Etc		Commons
commons	image		Pointe de la Tranche, 1798 RCIN 735065		Commons
commons	image		John Thomas Baines - Action between HMS 'Blanche' and the 'Pique', 5 January 1795		Commons
commons	image		The death of Robert Faulknor, he is shot while lashing the French enemy ship to his own ship. Etching and engraving by W. Bromley and C. Blackberd, 1801, after T. Stothard Wellcome V0006914		Commons
commons	image		HMS Blanche and Pique		Commons
commons	image		HMS Jason and the Seine		Commons