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Le Groignard

19674
Nominal Guns12BWAS-1714
NationalityRoyaume de France
OperatorPrivate Owners
Acquired1762BWAS-1714
Home PortBayonne - Aquitaine BWAS-1714
ShipyardUnknownBWAS-1714
CategoryPrivateerBWAS-1714
Ship TypeUnknownBWAS-1714
Captured30.12.1762BG

Crew Complement


Date# of MenNotesSource
30.12.1762126 BG

Service History


DateEventSource
30.12.1762Taken by
Coventry (28) 1757-1783
British 28 Gun
6th Rate Frigate
in the Latitude of 46° 30' North, and Longitude 8° 00' West from Cape Clear
BG


Notes on Ship


CaptureBG

Admiralty Offce, January 19 , 1763

Captain Carpenter, of His Majesty's Ship Coventry, gives an account, in his letter dated at Kinsale the 9th Instant, that in the Latitude of 46° 30' North, and Longitude 8° 00' West from Cape Clear, the 30th of December, he took the Groignard French Privateer of 10 guns and 126 men, belonging to Bayonne; and that he parted with the prize off the Cape the 5th Instant.



 
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