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Le Miquilet

19159
Miquelet
Nominal Guns14BWAS-1714
NationalityRoyaume de France
OperatorPrivate Owners
Acquired1760ref:692
Home PortBayonne - Aquitaine BWAS-1714
ShipyardUnknownBWAS-1714
CategoryPrivateerBWAS-1714
Ship TypeUnknownBWAS-1714
Captured1.5.1762BWAS-1714

Dimensions


DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:692
Burthen170French Tonneaux167.409 

Armament


1760Broadside Weight = 1 French Livre (1.0792 lbs 0.4896 kg)ref:692
Gun Deck4 French Swivel
Gun Deck12 French Canons de Fonte

Owners


DatesOwnerSource
1760 - 1760/05/06
Jean MeyracFrench
Ship Owner
ref:692

Crew Complement


Date# of MenNotesSource
1760152 ref:692
1.5.1762136 BG

1 Ship Commander


DatesRankNameSource
1760 - 1.5.1762Capitaine de Corsaire
Jean Léon DangladeFrench
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Service 1757-1762
ref:692

Service History


DateEventSource
1760

From 1760 to 1762 , took the ships "Friendship" and "Samuel and Jean"

ref:692
1.5.1762Taken by
Venus (36) 1758-1828
British 36 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
1807 Renamed "Heroine"
off the Lizard and sent into Plymouth .
BG


Notes on Ship


Divergence date captureref:692

01/05/1762 in The London Gazette 

01/06/1762 in Salein

06/05/1762 in British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714 -1792


ArmamentsBG

Fourteen 6 and 4-pounders


CaptureBG

Admiralty Office , June 10 , 1762 .
His Majesty's Ship the Venus , commanded by Captain Thomas  Harrison , being on a cruise , on the 1st of May fell in with two privateers , to which he gave chace , being in the Latitude 470 30' the Lizard N. E. 75 Leagues : one of which he took , and proved to be the Micollet of Bayonne , of 14 guns and 136 men . And on the 4th Instant the Venus came up with anid took the Nostra Segnora de Begonia , a spanish privateer belonging to Bilboa , of 16 6-pounders and 20 swivel guns , and 195 men .



 
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