What happened when a captured ship duplicated a Royal Navy name

What did the Royal Navy do when a captured French ship had the same name as a ship already in British service?

It renamed the captured vessel, although individual cases could produce confusing sequences of reused or translated names.

French navies could reuse a name after an earlier bearer had been captured. If the new prize then entered Royal Navy service, a duplicate British name was impractical. The Admiralty's solution was to rename the captured ship. Some cases produced unusually tangled naming histories, but the discussion leaves a particular example unidentified because its details could not be recalled confidently.