Trompeuse (ship)

During the French Revolutionary War Trompeuse, meaning “misleading” or “deceptive”, was a popular name for French naval vessels and privateers. Warships of the Royal Navy captured or destroyed at least three vessels under that name.

On 12 January 1794, the post ship HMS Sphynx captured the 18-gun French Navy brig Trompeuse, which the Royal Navy took into service under her own name.^[1]
In May 1797 HMS Spitfire, under the command of Captain Michael Seymour, captured the French schooner Trompeuse of six guns and 40 men.^[2] Trompeuse, of Morlaix, had been out five days and had taken two Prussian vessels, one sailing to Liverpool and the other to Oporto.^[3]
On 17 September 1797, on the Jamaica station, HMS Pelican, with HMS Drake in sight, engaged and destroyed the French privateer Trompeuse, of 12 guns and 78 men.^[4]

References

Citations

^ Norie (1842), p.406.
^ Norie (1842), p.489.
^ London Gazette: no. 14009. p. 435. 13 May 1797.
^ London Gazette: no. 14067. p. 1114. 21 November 1797.

Bibliography

Norie, J. W. (1842) The naval gazetteer, biographer and chronologist; containing a history of the late wars from ... 1793 to ... 1801; and from ... 1803 to 1815, and continued, as to the biographical part to the present time. (London, C. Wilson).