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French corvette Aréthuse

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was fitted for service with the Royal Navy between September and December 1800. She was commissioned in September 1800 under Commander James Sanders for the Channel. She was recommissioned in June 1802 under Commander Spelman Swaine, and in August sailed for the Mediterranean.
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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
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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.
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rescued her crew. The court martial on 10 February 1805 admonished the master for having steered too near the land.
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as having eighteen 9-pounder guns and a crew of 153 men, all under the command of a
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Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la Flotte de Guerre Française de Colbert à nos Jours.
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arrived in Plymouth on 26 November 1799. Four hundred French prisoners from
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31.18 m (102.3 ft) (overall); 27.93 m (91.6 ft) (keel)
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British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859
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Index

French corvette Aréthuse (1798)
French ship Aréthuse
HMS Raven

Arethusa
Corvette
bm
carronades
bow guns
Aréthuse-class
corvettes
French Navy
Excellent
Royal Navy
Emmanuel Halgan
Lorient
Impregnable
struck
Bourdelaise
Revolutionnaire
Favignana
master's mate
Mazari
List of ships captured in the 19th century
O'Byrne, William R.
"Swaine, Spelman" 
A Naval Biographical Dictionary


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