French cutter Pandour (1780)

History
France
Name	Pandour
Builder	Jacques and Daniel Denÿs, Dunkirk
Launched	16 June 1780
Captured	1 June 1795
Great Britain
Name	HMS Pandora
Acquired	December 1795 by capture
Commissioned	September 1796
Fate	Foundered June 1797
General characteristics [1][2]
Class and type	Mutin-class[a]
Type	Cutter, converted to brig
Displacement	212 tons (French)
Tons burthen	231 27⁄94 (bm)
Length	78 ft 0 in (23.8 m) (overall); 60 ft 0+1⁄4 in (18.3 m) (keel)
Beam	26 ft 11 in (8.2 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Brig
Complement	French service: 85-115 British service:75
Armament	14 × 6-pounder guns (French and British service)

Pandour was a 14-gun brig of the French Navy launched in 1780 as a cutter. The Royal Navy captured her in December 1795 and took her into service as HMS Pandora, but she foundered in June 1797.

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