Perçante

Perçante was a 20-gun corvette of the French Navy built at Bayonne and launched in 1795. The British captured her in 1796 and took her into the Royal Navy under the name HMS Jamaica. Rated as a 26-gun sixth-rate post ship, she served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, during which she captured several privateers and participated in a boat attack. The British Admiralty had her laid up in 1810 and sold her in 1814.