HMS Victoire (1797)
History | |
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France | |
Name | Victoire |
Launched | 1793, Ostend, Antwerp, or some other port in the region[1] |
Captured | 28 December 1797 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Victoire |
Acquired | December 1797 by capture |
Fate | Sold 16 December 1801 |
Notes | A tender named Victoire was part of a naval squadron at the Siege of Genoa (1800). The squadron also included HMS Minotaur, Phoenix, , and Entreprenante, all under the command of Vice-Admiral Lord Keith.[2] Victoire may have been the privateer of two guns and 28 men that HMS Mutine had captured near Genoa on 29 March 1800.[3] |
General characteristics [4] | |
Tons burthen | 70, or 7260⁄94 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 16 ft 5 in (5.0 m) |
Depth of hold | 7 ft 6 in (2.3 m) |
Complement |
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Armament |
HMS Victoire (or HMS Victor) was the French privateer schooner Victoire that the Royal Navy captured in 1797 and took into service as a fireship. The Navy sold her at the end of 1801.
French service and capture[]
Victoire was launched in 1793.
On 28 December 1797 Termagant was four leagues off Spurn Head when she sighted and gave chase to a French privateer. After four hours Termagant succeeded in capturing the schooner Victoire, of 14 guns and 74 men. She had been out ten days during which time she had captured two colliers; she had been in pursuit of a British merchantman when Termagant first sighted her.[7] The Royal Navy took Victoire into service as HMS Victoire.
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Between March and June 1798 Victoire was at Sheerness, undergoing fitting as a temporary fireship.
In 1801 Lieutenant James Tillard commissioned Victoire for the North Sea.[4]
Fate[]
The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered Victoire, of 83 tons, lying at Woolwich, for sale on 16 December 1801.[8] She sold there on that day for £240.[4]
Lieutenant Tillard took command of Monkey.
Citations and references[]
Citations
- ^ Demerliac (1999), p. 210, n°1625.
- ^ "No. 15262". The London Gazette. 1 June 1800. p. 561.
- ^ "No. 15278". The London Gazette. 22 July 1800. pp. 842–843.
- ^ a b c Winfield (2008), p. 380.
- ^ Naval Chronicle, (July–December 1800}, Volume 4, p.547.
- ^ Naval Chronicle, (January-June 1801}, Volume 5, p.551.
- ^ "No. 14078". The London Gazette. 30 December 1797. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 15434". The London Gazette. 8 December 1801. p. 1463.
References
- Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 à 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381247. OCLC 492783890.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
- 1793 ships
- Ships built in France
- Privateer ships of France
- Captured ships
- Schooners of the Royal Navy