British cutter 'Tapageur' (1779)

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Tapageur
Nominal Guns	14	BWAS-1714
Nationality	Great Britain
Operator	Royal Navy
Previously	French cutter 'Le Tapageur' (1778) (14) 1778-1779 French 14 Gun Unrated Cutter
Captured	4.1779	BWAS-1714
Shipyard	Dunkerque - Flanders	NNF-1774
Ship Class	Mutin Class (1778)	NNF-1774
Category	Unrated	BWAS-1714
Ship Type	Cutter	BWAS-1714
Wrecked	3.1780	BWAS-1714

Dimensions

DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentBWAS-1714
Length of Gundeck73' 6"Imperial Feet22.3012
Length of Keel54' 10 ½"Imperial Feet16.4719
Breadth27' 9"Imperial Feet8.2623
Depth in Hold10' 10"Imperial Feet3.048
Burthen224 ⁶⁴⁄₉₄Tons BM

2 Ship Commanders

DatesRankNameSource
5.1779 - 3.1780LieutenantBWAS-17141781 - 4.1781LieutenantBWAS-1714

Service History

DateEventSource
25.5.1779Registered as a sloopBWAS-1714
27.5.1779Registered as a cutterBWAS-1714
21.7.1779Began coppering and fitting at Plymouth Dockyard - Plymouth BWAS-1714
22.8.1779Completed coppering and fitting at Plymouth Dockyard - Plymouth at a cost of £1484.18.5dBWAS-1714
3.1780Wrecked while warping into Careenage Bay, St Lucia, but apparently still in service in 1781?BWAS-1714
16.4.1781At Porto Praya?BWAS-1714

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

BWAS-1714Rif Winfield, Book

NNF-1774Alain Demerliac, Book

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Posted by Jon Miller on Saturday 20th of June 2026 03:56

Letters from St Lucia, dated June 21, say, that the Cornwall man of war had sunk going into the Carenage, but the crew and most of the stores were saved; that the Fame man of war had been broken up, the Albion and another ship of the line were rendered unfit for service, and that the Tapageur cutter, was wrecked on a sunken rock in the bay of Carenage. [Exeter Flying Post, 4 August 1780]

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