HMS Eclipse (1804)

	Plans of Vésuve, lead ship of the class
History
France
Name	Volage
Builder	Lemarchand, Saint-Malo
Laid down	March 1793
Launched	May 1793
In service	June 1793
Renamed	Venteux (May 1795)
Captured	27 June 1803
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Eagle
Acquired	1803 by capture
Commissioned	September 1803
Renamed	HMS Eclipse (1804)
Fate	Sold April 1807
General characteristics
Class and type	Vésuve-class gunbrig
Tons burthen	158 (bm)
Length	Overall:74 ft 2+1⁄2 in (22.6 m); Keel:59 ft 8+3⁄4 in (18.2 m);
Beam	22 ft 3+5⁄8 in (6.8 m)
Depth of hold	7 ft 5 in (2.3 m)
Complement	French navy:82; Royal Navy:55;
Armament	French navy:; 4 × 18-pounder long guns ; 6 × 36-pounder brass carronades; Royal Navy:; Upper deck: 10 × 32–pounder carronades; QD:2 × 18-pounder guns;

HMS Eclipse was a French Navy Vésuve-class brick-canonnier or chaloupe-canonnière, (gunbrig) launched at Saint-Malo in 1793 as Volage. She was renamed Venteux in 1795 (possibly also Vérité on 30 May 1795, although this might have been a second ship of the same name. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1803 and took her into service as HMS Eagle, but then renamed her HMS Eclipse in 1804. She had a completely unremarkable career before the Navy sold her in 1807.

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