Английская Википедия:HMS Actif (1794)

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HMS Actif was supposedly the British privateer Active that the French captured in 1793 and that became the French privateer Actif. Шаблон:HMS recaptured Actif on 16 March 1794. The Royal Navy took her into service but she foundered on 26 November. All her crew were saved.

British privateer

British sources state that Active was a Liverpool privateer launched c. 1789.Шаблон:Sfnp She was under the command of Captain Stephen Bower (or Bowers), and was sailing under a letter of marque dated 2 May 1793.[1] The French frigate Sémillante captured this privateer on 21 May 1793.Шаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnp At capture, Active was armed with eleven guns and three howitzers.Шаблон:Sfnp

There are problems with this story. Bowers's letter of marque describes Active as a brig of 100 tons (bm), not a sloop of 165. More critically, both Williams's account of the capture,Шаблон:Sfnp and that in Lloyd's List report that a Guernsey privateer recaptured Active and took her into Guernsey. Lloyd's List further named the re-captor as the privateer Brilliant.[2]

French service

On 16 March 1794 Шаблон:HMS captured both Actif and Шаблон:HMS in the West Indies.Шаблон:Sfnp

Royal Navy service and loss

The Royal Navy registered Actif as a sloop on 17 July. However, already by 4 June she was on active service with the Royal Navy, participating in the capture of Port-au-Prince.[3] Commander John Harvey became her captain on 5 September.Шаблон:Sfnp

Harvey was sailing Actif to England when by 24 November she developed leaks while off Bermuda. Even with the crew working the pumps continuously, she took on so much water as her structure weakened that on the 26th she had to make distress signals. Шаблон:HMS came up and rescued Harvey and his crew. The rescuers left her to founder at Шаблон:Coord.Шаблон:Sfnp

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