Английская Википедия:French ship Jean Bart (1786)

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Jean Bart was a merchant vessel built at Bayonne in 1786. Her owners commissioned her at Nantes in 1793 as a privateer. The French Navy requisitioned her in January 1794 and classed her as a corvette and listed her as Jean Bart No. 2 to distinguish her from the Шаблон:Ship. The Navy intended to rename her Imposant in May 1795, but the Royal Navy captured her first.Шаблон:Sfnp

On 15 April 1795, a naval squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren gave chase to Jean Bart, described in the report of the capture as being a ship-corvette of 26 guns and 187 men. The actual captor, off the Île de Ré, was Шаблон:HMS.[1]

The Royal Navy took Jean Bart into service as the post ship HMS Laurel. Between July and 8 December 1795 the Royal Navy had Laurel fitted a Portsmouth. She had been flush-decked, but received a small forecastle, quarterdeck, and extra platforms. She was commissioned under Captain Robert Rolles. He had been promoted to post captain on 12 August 1785; he had been captain of the hired armed ship Шаблон:Ship.Шаблон:Sfnp

Rolles sailed Laurel for the coast of Africa and then the Leeward Islands.[2] In May 1796 Laurel participated in the capture of Saint Lucia under Rear Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian and General Ralph Abercrombie,Шаблон:Sfnp and shared in the prize money for the capture.[3]

Laurel was sold in 1797 at Jamaica.Шаблон:Sfnp

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