Английская Википедия:HMS Avenger (1794)

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HMS Avenger was a 16-gun ship-sloop of the British Royal Navy. Previously she was the French privateer Marseillaise and then naval corvette Vengeur, which the British Army captured during the battle for Martinique in 1794. The Admiralty sold her in 1802.

French career

Prior to her service in the French Navy, Vengeur was a French privateer called Marseillaise and may even have been a British armed merchantman Avenger, before that.Шаблон:Sfnp Marseillaise (the -ois termination gave way to -ais at this period), was a 300-ton, 16-gun privateer corvette from Martinique, commissioned in 1793.Шаблон:Sfnp

Lloyd's List reported on 27 August 1793 that the French privateer Marsellois, of 22 guns and 180 men, from Dunkirk, had captured Шаблон:Ship and two Dutch vessels from the West Indies, and sent all three into Boston.[1]

At some point she captured Шаблон:Ship, which the Royal Navy promptly recaptured.

The French Navy acquired Marseillaise in January 1794 in the Antilles.Шаблон:Sfnp She was stationed at Martinique when on 5 February, a fleet under the command of Admiral Sir John Jervis landed troops under the command of General Charles Grey. On the 17 February the British troops captured Venguer at St Pierre.Шаблон:Sfnp

British career

Vengeur was commissioned as a British warship in Martinique and was initially placed under the command of Lieutenant James Milne. On 17 March, boats from Avenger took part in a cutting out expedition in Fort Royal Bay, which captured the French frigate Bienvenue. When Milne was killed in action,[2] command of Avenger passed to Lieutenant Henry William Bayntun.Шаблон:Sfnp

Avenger and her crew took part in the capture of Gaudeloupe in April 1794.[3] Bayntun remained in command of Avenger until 4 May 1794 when he was promoted to Post Captain and appointed to Bienvenue, the frigate he had captured the previous month.Шаблон:Sfnp Edward Griffith became the captain of Avenger and on 22 September he arrived with her at Portsmouth.Шаблон:Sfnp In 1795 she was under the command of Charles Ogle. She was registered as HMS Avenger in June 1798 but was not fitted out for sea again.Шаблон:Sfnp

In 1797 Avenger was among the vessels that qualified for prize money for stores and the like captured at Martinique, St Lucia, and Guadeloupe between March and April 1794.[4] There was a second, much larger disbursement in 1800.[5] A third disbursement, smaller than the first, took place in 1806.[6]

Fate

The Admiralty sold Avenger on 9 September 1802.Шаблон:Sfnp

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