French ship Éole (1799)

Éole was an 18-gun corvette of the French Navy, later commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Nimrod after her capture by HMS Solebay (1785).

Career
Built in Bordeaux as a privateer corvette, Éole was requisitioned and brought into service in the French Navy in September 1799, and commissioned in Rochefort. HMS Solebay (1785) captured her at Saint Domingue on 23 November 1799, and she was taken in British service as HMS Nimrod.

She was sold for breaking up in February 1811.