Английская Википедия:French corvette Aréthuse
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsAréthuse, launched in April 1798, was the name-ship of the eponymous Шаблон:Sclasss of the French Navy. Шаблон:HMS captured her in 1799. The Royal Navy took her into service under the name HMS Raven. She was wrecked in 1804.
French service
Jean-François Gauthier designed her and she was the only vessel of her class. She carried only 18 cannon, though she was designed for 20.
Aréthuse served between France and the Caribbean.
On 9 October 1799 she was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Emmanuel Halgan on her way from Lorient for Cayenne with dispatches.[1]
She was sailing towards Шаблон:HMS and her convoy when the 74-gun Excellent, which was to windward of Impregnable, spotted her. Excellent chased Aréthuse, catching her during the night. Captain Robert Stopford of Excellent described Aréthuse as having eighteen 9-pounder guns and a crew of 153 men, all under the command of a lieutenant de vaisseau. She was sailing from Lorient to Cayenne with dispatches that she succeeded in destroying before she struck.[1] Excellent shared the capture with Impregnable.[2]
British service
Aréthuse arrived in Plymouth on 26 November 1799. Four hundred French prisoners from Aréthuse and Bourdelaise had landed there two days earlier.[3] (Revolutionnaire had captured Bordelais on 11 October.) Aréthuse was fitted for service with the Royal Navy between September and December 1800.Шаблон:Sfnp She was commissioned in September 1800 under Commander James Sanders for the Channel.Шаблон:Sfnp She was recommissioned in June 1802 under Commander Spelman Swaine,Шаблон:Efn and in August sailed for the Mediterranean.Шаблон:Sfnp
Fate
On 4 January 1804 Raven sailed from Malta as escort to the merchant ship Dolphin, bound for Naples.Шаблон:Sfnp She was following a course along the south coast of Sicily that would take her between the islands of Favignana and Marettimo. In the evening of the next day master's mate Robert Incledon had the watch and saw a light shape in the moonless night. He thought it was a sail but it turned out to be a tower on the cliffs near Mazari, on the south west coast of Sicily. At 11pm she ran aground.Шаблон:Sfnp Despite efforts to lighten and free her, efforts that extended into the afternoon of 6 January, the pumps were unable to clear the water that was coming in and she had to be abandoned. Dolphin rescued her crew.Шаблон:Sfnp The court martial on 10 February 1805 admonished the master for having steered too near the land.Шаблон:Sfnp
See also
Notes
Citations
References
- Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom d'Aréthuse, netmarine.net
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- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005) Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la Flotte de Guerre Française de Colbert à nos Jours. (Group Retozel-Maury Millau).
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External links
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Naval Chronicle, Vol. 2, p.542.
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