HMS Proserpine
Introduction Several Royal Navy ships have borne the name '''HMS ''Proserpine''''':*  was a sloop purchased in 1756 and captured by France later that year. *  was a fireship purchased in 1757 and sold in 1763. *  was a sixth-rate frigate wrecked in a snowstorm on 1 February 1799 on Scharhörn Sand near Newark Island in the Elbe with the loss of 14 of her crew. After she had been abandoned, several crew members returned to her and refloated her on 10 February but she grounded again on Baltrum Island. * HMS ''Proserpine'' (1798) was the French frigate ''Bellone'', which  captured on 12 October 1798 and which the Royal Navy took into service as a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate. She was hulked in 1799 and sold for breaking up in 1806. *  was an  launched in 1807.While she lay off Toulon on 27 February 1809, the French frigates  and  captured her in the action of 27 February 1809. *  was a 46-gun fifth rate sold in 1860. *  was a  built in 1896 and scrapped in 1919. * HMS ''Proserpine'', a shore naval base at Lyness in Orkney used by Scapa Flow in World War II.
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