French Privateer schooner 'Le Vengeur' (1799)

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13.4.1799Broadside Weight = 12 French Livre (12.9504 lbs 5.874 kg)BG
Gun Deck6 French 4-Pounder

Date# of MenNotesSource
13.4.179936included the passengersBG

DateEventSource
4.1799

As "Letter of Marque" bound from St. Jago de Cuba to Jeremie, with a cargo of flour : she was a Privateer in her last cruise

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13.4.1799Taken by at the East End of JamaicaBG

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She is a Copper-bottomed Schooner, capable of mounting Ten Carriage Guns, nearly new, and fails uncommonly fast .

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