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L'Espérance | 22012 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 2 | BWAS-1793 | |
| Nationality | République Française | ||
| Operator | Private Owners | ||
| Acquired | 1797 | BWAS-1793 | |
| Home Port | St Malo - Brittany | BG | |
| Shipyard | Unknown | BWAS-1793 | |
| Category | Privateer | BWAS-1793 | |
| Ship Type | Cutter | BG | |
| Captured | 27.4.1797 | BWAS-1793 | |
Admiralty-Office, May 2, 1797.
Copy of a Letter from Sir Richard Strachan, Bart.
Captain of His Majesty's Ship Diamond, to
Evan Nepean, Esq; dated Cape L'Hive, April 27, 1797, S. S. E. 12 Leagues.
Sir ,
I have to acquaint you, for their Lordships information that His Majesty's Ship Diamond, under my Command, this morning fell in with and took a French Cutter Privateer called the Esperana, belonging to St. Malo : She had not taken any English Vessels but she had yesterday retained an American Ship, the Juliana, of Baltimore, bound to Bremen, and sent her into a french port.