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Le Léger

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Nominal Guns4ref:692
NationalityRépublique Française
OperatorPrivate Owners
Acquired1798ref:692
Home PortDunkerque - Flanders ref:692
ShipyardUnknownref:692
CategoryPrivateerref:692
Ship TypeLugger
Captured1.6.1798ref:692

Dimensions


DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:692
Burthen38French Tonneaux41.8523 

Armament


1.6.1798Broadside Weight = 8 French Livre (8.6336 lbs 3.916 kg)BG
Gun Deck4 French 4-Pounder

Owners


DatesOwnerSource
1798 - 1798/06/01
Pauwels French
Ship Owner
Service 1798
ref:692

Crew Complement


Date# of MenNotesSource
179834 ref:692
1.6.179835all escape capture by BritishBG

1 Ship Commander


DatesRankNameSource
1798 - 1.6.1798Capitaine de Corsaire
Félix Louis LallemandFrench
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Service 1796-1809
ref:692

Service History


DateEventSource
1798

Took 3 vessels, and sent them to Arundel in Norway.

Took the ships "Persévérance" and "Liberté"

BG
1.6.1798Taken by
Iris (32) 1783-1833
British 32 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
1809 Renamed "Solebay"
off the Scaw
BG


Notes on Ship


CaptureBG

Admiralty-Office, June 16, 1798. 

Extract of  letter from Captain Brijac, Commander of His Majesty s Ship Iris, to Evan Nepean, Esq; dated at Leith, the 11th instant.

I have the pleasure tof say, that on the 1st instant,  off the Scaw, after a chace of 16 hours, I captured the Leger French Lugger Privateer, carrying four 4-pounders, who had the impudence to fire, at His Majesty's Ship under my command, and by the papers I found on board had 35 men, commanded by a Mons. Lallemand, who, with the crew, escaped on shore about 3 leagues to the Eastward of the Scaw, in fishhing boats. She had taken 3 vessels, and sent them to Arundel in Norway.


Homeportref:692

Calais and Dunkirk



 
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