French frigate Hébé (1782)

	Hebe (right) in 1795
History
Kingdom of France
Name	Hébé
Namesake	Hebe
Builder	Saint Malo
Laid down	December 1781
Launched	25 June 1782
Commissioned	August 1782
Captured	Captured by the Royal Navy in the action of 4 September 1782
Great Britain
Name	HMS Hebe
Acquired	1782 by purchase of a prize
Renamed	HMS Blonde (1805)
Fate	Broken up June 1811
General characteristics
Class & type	Hébé-class frigate
Displacement	1,350 tonneaux
Tons burthen	700 port tonneaux; 1782: 10717⁄94; 1790: 106252⁄94;
Length	46.3 m (152 ft)
Beam	11.9 m (39 ft)
Draught	5.5 m (18 ft)
Complement	297
Armament	French navy: 26 × long 18-pounder + *8 × long 8-pounder guns; Royal Navy; Upper deck: 28 × 18-pounder guns; QD: ; 1782: 8 × 9-pounder guns; 1805: 6 × 32-pounder carronades; Fc: ; 1782: 2 × 9-pounder guns; 1805: 2 × 32-pounder carronades;

Hébé was a 38-gun Hébé-class frigate of the French Navy. The lead ship of her class, she was captured by the Royal Navy at the action of 4 September 1782 and taken into British service as HMS Hebe before being renamed as HMS Blonde in 1805. She was decommissioned in 1810 and broken up in 1811.