• The French brig Gironde was launched at Rochefort in 1793 as a Dédaigneuse-class gun-brig of the French Navy. In 1797 she was struck from the lists and...
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  • launched at Le Havre in 1793, was the name vessel of a two-vessel class of brig-rigged canonnières, i.e., gun-brigs. The French Navy renamed her Arrogante...
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    John Baptiste, a Spanish lugger, that she burnt: Gironde a French privateer of 16 guns and 141 men. Gironde had been a particularly successful and active...
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    Coureuse was sold in 1799. Rude was a brig-rigged gunboat launched on 15 November 1793 at Paimboeuf. The French had armed her with three 24-pounders from...
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    off Sardinia, notably supporting the landing of French troops on 14 January 1793. From 26 August 1793, she was under the command of Lieutenant Le Duey...
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    Indefatigable recaptured the brig Cultivator, from the French. Eleven days later, Indefatigable and Sirius captured the French ship Favori. The next day...
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    14 December Belle Poule took the brig Squirrel, which was sailing from Arcasson, in the Gironde, to New York. The brig was of 169 tons, armed with two...
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  • Ranger, on 2 November the French privateer Vengeance recaptured Ranger. Four days later Galatea re-recaptured Ranger off the Gironde. There being a Ranger...
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    Sybille captures French frigate Forte. 1799, February 25 – French privateer Democrat captures merchantman Cicero 1799, March 18 – HM hired brig Telegraph captures...
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  • "captured" by her name. United States records have her captor as the French brig Gironde. An extract of a letter dated 29 October 1801 from Fulwar Skipwith...
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  • César (1802 ship) (category Brigs of the Royal Navy)
    César was a mercantile brig launched in 1802 that the French Navy purchased at Bordeaux in 1803. The Royal Navy captured her in July 1806 and took her...
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  • evening of 5 April 1806, Cochrane sailed Pallas into the Gironde estuary and captured the French 14-gun Tapageuse, and drove ashore and wrecked three other...
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  • HMS Acteon (or Actaeon), was the brig Actéon, launched in France in 1804 as the second of the two-ship Lynx-class. The British Royal Navy captured her...
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    HMS Parthian (1808) (category Cherokee-class brig-sloops)
    / 45; -90 when she sighted a brig to her west. The British recognized the brig as the famous privateer Nouvelle Gironde, and gave chase. After a 36-hour...
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    many prizes. On 19 September 1797 Boadicea and Anson captured the French privateer brig Zephyr. She was out of Nantes, was armed with two brass 12-pounder...
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  • had the misfortune to meet the French privateer Gironde, which was armed with 26 guns and had a crew of 260 men. Gironde captured Bolton in an hour-long...
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  • November. She arrived at the Gironde, where she waited for two weeks in quarantine. When she sailed into Bordeaux, local French authorities still detained...
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  • December 2021. "French gunboat 'La Gironde' (1793)". Threedecks. Retrieved 20 December 2021. "French gunboat 'L'Ile de Re' (1793)". Threedecks. Retrieved 20...
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    73 tons. Pactolus returned to Britain and on 9 July 1815 sailed up the Gironde, together with Hebrus and Falmouth. Pactolus was on a mission to treat...
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    Henry Hotham (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    observed two French privateer ships, Brave and Bellone coming out of the Gironde. He was obliged to scuttle the Spaniard to make chase. The French attempted...
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  • HMS Conflict (1805) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    the French fleet in the Basque Roads. On 11 April Conflict took part in the attack on the French fleet in Basque Roads. In the evening the brigs HMS Beagle...
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    HMS Podargus (1808) (category Brig-sloops of the Royal Navy)
    Egmont, anchored in the Gironde with a squadron that included Podargus. On 2 April the boats of Porcupine captured one gun-brig, six gun-boats, one armed...
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  • HMS Challenger (1813) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
    Challenger was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched at Redbridge, Southampton, in 1813. She participated in the capture of a French privateer and then sailed...
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  • 1803 until she was broken up in April 1811. Argus was a 300-ton (French; "of load") brig or corvette commissioned in Bordeaux in 1798, probably built that...
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  • the American ship Thames. At the same time she also detained the American brig Columbia, which resulted in the incurring of some expenses that were deducted...
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  • Thomas Eyles (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    the French 36-gun Andromache was spotted making for the Gironde estuary. The 32-gun HMS Galatea, under Captain Richard Goodwin Keats, and the brig HMS Sylph...
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    same squadron, and on 27 August discovered another French convoy around the mouth of the river Gironde. The squadron chased the convoy overnight; Triton...
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  • Frederick Whitworth Aylmer, 6th Baron Aylmer (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    commander of the force that penetrated the Gironde in July 1815, as part of a wider British strategy to rally French royalists against Napoleon. In 1816, commanding...
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  • Jean-François Lemaresquier (category Pages with French IPA)
    officer. In 1806, Lemaresquier commanded the 14-gun brig Teazer, stationed at the entrance of the Gironde estuary at Le Verdon-sur-Mer. On 15 July, at 1:30...
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  • various naval actions that occurred during the period 1793–1840, a period that included the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Anglo–American...
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