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| Name | Sensible |
| Namesake | French: "sensitive" |
| Ordered | 23 January 1786 |
| Builder | Toulon |
| Laid down | February 1786 |
| Launched | 9 August 1787 |
| In service | March 1788 |
| Captured | 28 June 1798 |
 Great Britain | |
| Name | Sensible |
| Acquired | 28 June 1798 by capture |
| Honours and awards | Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1] |
| Fate | Wrecked on 2 March 1802 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type | Magicienne-class frigate |
| Displacement | 600 tonnes & c.1100 tonnes fully loaded |
| Tons burthen | 94567⁄94 (bm)[3] |
| Length | 44.2 m (145 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 11.2 m (36 ft 9 in) |
| Draught | 5.2 m (17 ft 1 in) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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Sensible was a 32-gun Magicienne-class frigate of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1798 off Malta and took into service as HMS Sensible. She was lost in a grounding off Ceylon in 1802.
- ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
- ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 64, no.392.
- ^ a b Winfield (2008), pp. 206–207.