Spanish brig Infante (1787)

History
Spain
Name	Infante[1]
Builder	Cadiz[1]
Launched	1787[1]
Captured	By the French Navy in December 1793[1]
France
Name	Infante
Builder	Cadiz[1]
Renamed	Liberté (January 1794); Infante (May 1795); Salamine (10 May 1798)
Captured	June 1799
Great Britain
Name	HMS Salamine
Acquired	By capture June 1799
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) with clasp "Egypt"[2]
Fate	Sold 1802
General characteristics [1][3]
Type	18-gun brig
Displacement	350 tons[4]
Tons burthen	240 (bm)
Length	93 ft 6 in (28.50 m) (overall); 79 ft 0 in (24.08 m) (keel)
Beam	28 ft 8 in (8.74 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 0 in (3.05 m)
Complement	Originally: 95–112[4] At capture: 120[5] British service: 86 in British service
Armament	18 × 6-pounder guns

Salamine was originally the Spanish Navy's Infante 18-gun brig, built in 1787 at Cadiz. The French Navy captured her at Toulon in December 1793 and recommissioned her; they renamed her on 10 May 1798 as Salamine, for the battle of Salamis. On 18 June 1799, HMS Emerald captured her and she was brought into Royal Navy service as HMS Salamine. She served briefly in the Mediterranean, where she captured two French privateers and several merchant vessels before the Royal Navy sold her at Malta in 1802, after the Treaty of Amiens ended the war with France.