French ship Vengeur
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Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Vengeur ("Avenger"):
- Vengeur (1765-1785), a 64-gun ship of the line, that saw action with Bailli de Suffren during the American War of Independence.
- Vengeur (1790-1792), a Téméraire class ship of the line
- Vengeur (1794), a 20-gun corvette
- Vengeur (1799), an 8-gun schooner
- Vengeur (1803-1806), a 120-gun Océan class ship of the line
- Vengeur (1872-1905), an armoured coast guard
- Vengeur, a Monitor type ironclad of 1882.
- Vengeur (Q137) (1931-1942), a Redoutable class submarine, eventually scuttled with the Toulon fleet in 1942
See also
- The 74-gun ship of the line Marseillois (or Marseillais) was renamed Vengeur du Peuple ("Avenger of the People) in 1791, and was often referred to simply as Vengeur - this ship fought, and was sunk, at the Third Battle of Ushant on 1 June 1794.
- Vengeur was a French privateer of 12 guns that HMS Blanche captured on 1 October 1793.
- Vengeur was a French privateer that HMS Rose captured in the West Indies on 22 February 1794.[1]
- Vengeur, privateer involved in the Action of 22 January 1794 against a fleet of British East Indiamen.
- Vengeur, French privateer cutter of 18 guns and 130 men. Lloyd's List reported on 22 September 1795 that Vengeur had captured several British merchant vessels.[2]
- Vengeur, privateer of 18 guns and 110 men, that HMS Santa Margarita captured on 27 October 1796.
- Voltiguer was a French privateer schooner, formally the lugger Venguer. HMS Vestal captured her on 14 April 1797 off Flamborough Head and took her into the Humber.
- Vengeur des Francois was a French privateer of four guns and 35 men, belonging to Guadeloupe, that HMS Zephyr captured off Dominica on 18 June 1797.[3]
- Vengeur was a new privateer schooner of 12 guns and 72 men that HMS Indefatigable, Cambrian, and Childers captured on 11 January 1798.
- Vengeur was a French letter of marque of six guns and 36 men that HMS Amaranthe captured on 13 April 1799 after a fierce and sanguinary engagement.[4]
- Vengeur was a French privateer cutter of 14 guns and 105 men that HMS Martin captured on 28 April 1799.
- Vengeur was a French schooner (the former HMS Charlotte), of eight guns and 80 men, that HMS Solebay captured on 24 November 1799.
- Vengeur was a French privateer brig of six long 4-pounders and ten 18-pounder carronades, and a crew of 102 men that Indefatigable captured on 12 June 1800.
- Vengeur was a French privateer lugger of two large swivel guns and 17 men that the hired armed cutter Swan captured on 1 March 1801.
- Vengeur was a privateer that HMS Mermaid captured on 11 January 1800.
- Vengeur was a privateer lugger of 14 guns and 56 men that HMS Cruizer captured on 13 November 1806.
- Vengeur was a felucca-rigged privateer of one gun and some 50 men that the boats of HMS Success captured on 20 November 1805; Vengeur sank as she was being towed.[5]
- Vengeur was a privateer of 16 guns and 48 men that HMS Beagle captured on 24 January 1809.
- Vengeur was a lugger privateer that HMS Revenge captured on 17 October 1810.[6]
Sources
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 14067. p. 1114. 21 November 1797.
- ↑ Lloyd's List, no,2753, - accessed 3 March 2015.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 14033. p. 732. 1 August 1797.
- ↑ Naval Chronicle, Vol. 1, pp.245-6.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15998. p. 157. 7 February 1807.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 16487. p. 943. 21 May 1811.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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