French Privateer 'Le Voltigeur' (1803)

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Le Voltigeur
Nominal Guns	14	ref:692
Nationality	République Française
Operator	Private Owners
Acquired	1803	ref:692
Home Port	Boulogne-sur-Mer - Picardy	ref:692
Shipyard	Unknown	ref:692
Category	Privateer	ref:692
Ship Type	Unknown	ref:692
Captured	1807	ref:692

Dimensions

DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:692
Burthen43French Tonneaux56.1293

Owners

DatesOwnerSource
1803, Principal Managing Ownerref:692
1806 - 1807, Principal Managing Ownerref:692

Crew Complement

Date# of MenNotesSource
180343 ref:692

6 Ship Commanders

DatesRankNameSource
1801 - 1805Capitaine de Corsaire , listed from 1801 to 1805 ? just description 43Txref:6921803Capitaine de Corsaireref:6921803Capitaine de Corsaireref:6921805Capitaine de Corsaireref:6921806 - 1807Capitaine de Corsaireref:6921807Capitaine de Corsaireref:692

Service History

DateEventSource
1806

Took under Captain Nicolas Fourmentin from 1806 to 1807 the ships : "Venter" , "Trois Amis" , "Trois Frères" , "Vanroskan" , "Thomas" , "Phosphorus" , "Harrisson" , "Endeavour" , "Narraton"

ref:692

Notes on Ship

Ship same ?ref:692

Voltigeur 14 guns , 43 mens , 43 Tx for all captains from 1803 to 1807

Only from 1801 to 1805 for Margollé : 43 Tx listed

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

ref:692Jean Jacques Salein, Web Site

Previous comments on this page

Posted by Aquiles on Thursday 5th of March 2026 20:19

En 1807 llegó al puerto de Corcubión donde quedo allí por lo menos hasta el año 1808, abordo quedó solamente uno de sus tripulantes a su cuidado, era el Segundo Comandante Bernard Cabanes, según documentos consultados en el mes de julio aún se encontraba en dicho puerto

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