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La Légère | 19498 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 8 | BG | |
| Nationality | Royaume de France | ||
| Operator | Private Owners | ||
| Acquired | 1782 | BWAS-1714 | |
| Home Port | Dunkerque - Flanders | BG | |
| Shipyard | Unknown | BWAS-1714 | |
| Category | Privateer | BG | |
| Ship Type | Cutter | BG | |
| Captured | 11.12.1782 | BWAS-1714 | |
Admiralty-Office, December 23, 1782. Extract of a letter from Captain Thoinas Pringle, Commander of His Majesty's Ship Daedalus, to Mr. Stephen, dated at Spithead, December 13, 1782.
I beg you will inform their Lordships, that yesterday at noon, close in with shore of Mount's Bay, I took the French Cutter Privateer La Legere of Dunkerkque, George Furnald Commander, mounting 8 guns and manned with 40 men ; which privateer had been 3 days out ot Brest.