HMS Belle Poule (1806)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Belle Poule was a 40-gun Royal Navy fifth rate frigate, formerly Belle Poule, a Virginie-class frigate of the French Navy, which was built by the Crucy family's shipyard at Basse-Indre to a design by Jacques-Noël Sané. She was launched on 17 April 1802, and saw active service in the East, but in 1806 a British squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren captured Belle Poule. The Admiralty commissioned her into the Royal Navy, keeping her name. She was sold in 1816.