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Le Hardi

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Hardy
Nominal Guns18BWAS-1793
NationalityRépublique Française
OperatorPrivate Owners
Acquired1797BWAS-1793
Home PortBrest - Brittany ref:692
ShipyardUnknownBWAS-1793
CategoryPrivateerBWAS-1793
Ship TypeBrigref:692
Captured1.4.1797BWAS-1793

Dimensions


DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:692
Burthen230French Tonneaux226.149 

Owners


DatesOwnerSource
1796 - 1797/04/01
Florentin LavalléeFrench
Naval Sailor
Ship Owner
Privateer
Service 1796-1797
Owner
ref:692

Crew Complement


Date# of MenNotesSource
1797164 ref:692
1.4.1797130 BG

3 Ship Commanders


DatesRankNameSource
1796 - 1797Capitaine de Corsaire
Guillaume CowellFrench
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Service 1796-1797
ref:692
1797Capitaine de Corsaire
Florentin LavalléeFrench
Naval Sailor
Ship Owner
Privateer
Service 1796-1797
ref:692
1797 - 1.4.1797Capitaine de Corsaire
CousinFrench
Privateer
Service 1797
ref:692

Service History


DateEventSource
1797

Took the ships "Alexis" , "Antelope" , "Maria" ....

ref:692
1.4.1797Taken by
Hazard (16) 1794-1817
British 16 Gun
Unrated Sloop
off the Irish coast
BG


Notes on Ship


Captain ??ref:692

Cowell and Cousin same seaman ??


Captureref:692

Admiralty-Office, April 11, 1797.

Copy of a letter from Vice-Admiral Kingsmill, Commander of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Cork, to Evan Nepean, Esq, dated on board His Majesty's Ship Polyphemus, Cork Harbour, April 3, 1797.
SIR, Please to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that, on intelligence brought me of a cruizer of the enemy's having been seen off the Skellocks, I immediately dispatched Captain Ruddach, in the Hazard, on the 28 th Ult. to scour that coast ; and on the 1st Instant he fortunately fell in with, and captured, Le Hardi Brig Privateer, of 18 guns and 130 men, from Brest, a remarkable fast failing vessel, with which he has just returned here.

Inclosed is his letter to me on the subject.
I have the Honor to be, &c. &c.
R. KINGSMILL



 
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