Eugénie (1793 ship)

Career (France)
Name: Eugénie
Builder: Nantes
Launched: 1793[Note 1]
Acquired: March 1794 (requisitioned)
Decommissioned: February 1796
Captured: 16 March 1798
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Pandour or Pandora
Acquired: March 1798 by capture
Renamed: HMS Wolf in 1800
Fate: Broken up 1802
General characteristics [2]
Type:Brig
Displacement:300 tons[1]
Tons burthen:243 27⁄94 (bm)
Length:85 ft 10 in (26.2 m) (overall);
67 ft 9 1⁄4 in (20.7 m) (keel)
Beam:25 ft 11 3⁄4 in (7.9 m)
Depth of hold:11 ft 11 in (3.6 m)
Propulsion:Sails
Sail plan:Brig
Complement:French privateer: 100-10[1]
British establishment: 86
Armament:[1]

Originally:16 x 6-pounder guns + 12 swivel guns
1795: 2 x 6-pounder guns + 14 x 4-pounder guns
Privateer: 16 x 6-pounders

British establishment: 16 x 6-pounder guns
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Pandour, HMS Pandora, and HMS Wolf.

Eugénie was a French 16-gun privateer ship-sloop launched in 1793. The French Navy requisitioned her in March 1794 for ser coastal escort and patrol purposes. THe navy returned her to civilian ownership at Nantes in February 1796 and she returned to privateering.[1]

On 16 March 1798 HMS Magnanime was escorting a small convoy when she spied a privateer lurking about, seeking an opportunity to pick off a prize. Captain Michael de Courcy set Magnanime in chase. Twenty-three hours and 256 miles later, he captured the Eugénie at Latitude 42 and Longitude 12. She had been armed with 18 guns, eight of which she had thrown overboard during the chase, and had a crew of 107 men. She was coppered and appeared completely new.[3]

She arrived at Plymouth on 4 May. The Royal Navy took her into service under the name HMS Pandour, but never commissioned her. In 1800 her name became HMS Wolf. Wolf never saw active duty either.

The Admiralty offered her for sale at Plymouth on 31 August 1801.[4] She was broken up in 1802.[2]

Footnotes

Notes
  1. ↑ Winfield (2008; p.287) gives her launch year as 1793, but his earlier description (2008; p.266) gives the launch year as 1798. His more recent book, with S. Roberts, gives the year as 1793.[1]
Citations
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Winfield and Roberts (2015 forthcoing), Chap. 7.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Winfield (2008), p.266.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15006. p. 305. 10 April 1798.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15396. p. 991. 11 August 1801.

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