Sir Home Riggs Popham's squadron, consisting of 9 vessels, including another of Raisonnables sister ships, , for the Cape of Good Hope. The following campaign saw British troops drive the Dutch out of Cape Town, and the subsequent peace terms handed the Cape dependencies to the British crown. In April 1806, after receiving news that the people of Buenos Aires were unhappy with Spanish rule, and would welcome the British, Popham sailed with his squadron to the Río de la Plata. Popham was replaced by Rear Admiral Murray, and following a disastrous second attempt to take Buenos Aires, Raisonnable returned to the Cape. In 1809, Captain Rowley commanded a squadron that blockaded Mauritius (the Isle of France) and Réunion (the Isle of Bourbon). On 20 September, Rowley, commanding the squadron from , succeeded in taking the town of Saint-Paul, the batteries, a 40-gun frigate , a 16-gun brig, and 2 merchantmen, as well as rescuing two ships of the East India Company (Streatham and Europe). Captain Rowley transferred to during March 1810, and Captain John Hatley took over the command, paying the ship off in Chatham at the end of July. Fate In November 1810, Raisonnable was hulked and converted into a receiving ship, and towed to Sheerness. In March 1815, she was finally broken up. Fiction HMS Raisonnable is mentioned in Patrick O'Brian's The Mauritius Command, the fourth novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series. HMS Raisonnable is mentioned in Dewey Lambdin's Hostile Shores, the nineteenth novel in the Alan Lewrie series. HMS Raisonnable is mentioned in Bernard Cornwell's The Fort in her role as part of the British relief fleet during the Penobscot Expedition. Some of the action in S. Thomas Russell's novel Take, Burn or Destroy takes place on board HMS Raisonnable at the Battle of the Glorious First of June. Notes, citations, and references Notes Citations References Michael Phillips. Raisonable (64) (1768). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 1 September 2008. Goodwin, Peter (2002) Nelson's Ships – A History of the Vessels in which he Served, 1771-1805. Conway Maritime Press. Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. . External links Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Ardent-class ships of the line 1768 ships