French frigate Brune (1756)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Brune.
Scale model of Vestale, sister-ship of Brune, display at the Musée de la Marine in Toulon
Career (France)
Name: Brune
Namesake: Brune river
Builder: Le Havre, plans by Jean-Joseph Ginoux[1]
Laid down: September 1754[1]
Launched: 7 September 1755[1]
In service: March 1756[1]
Captured: by Britain, 30 January 1761[1]
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Brune[1]
Acquired: 1761[1]
Fate: Sold on 2 October 1792[1]
General characteristics
Class and type:Blonde class[1]
Armament:30 guns:[1]
Armour:Timber

The Brune was a Blonde class 30-gun frigate of the French Navy. She took part in the naval battles of the Seven Year War, and was captured by the British. Recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Brune, she served until 1792.

Career

Brune was ordered in January 1753, ans named on 7 January 1753.[1] In 1757, she served in a squadron under Rear-admiral Beaufremont to ferry troops to Saint-Domingue.[2]

She served as a coast-guard until August 1758, when she was decommissioned.[1]

On 18 March, she was recommissioned in Brest. On 30 January 1762, she was captured by the frigates HMS Venus and HMS Juno, after a two-hour fight.[1][3]

Recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Brune, she captured the French frigate Oiseau on 23 October 1762.[1]

In 1780, she captured a French ship Renard[Note 1][1]

She was sold on 2 October 1792.[1]

Notes and References

Notes

  1. ↑ Possibly the xebec Renard, recently sold.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 Roche, vol.1, p.88
  2. ↑ Troude, vol.1, p.341
  3. ↑ Troude, vol.1, p.427

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