Numerous vessels have been named Vautour (French for "vulture"):

Privateers

  • Vautour was a privateer that HMS Dryad captured after a six-hour chase. Vautour was armed with seven 4-pounder guns and two 12-pounder carronades. She was of 130 tons burthen (bm), with a crew of 78 men. She had sailed from Morlaiz on 13 October 1796 and not taken anything.[1]
  • Vautour (1797 ship) was a privateer launched in 1797 at Nantes that the British Royal Navy captured in 1800. She later became the whaler Vulture that a Spanish privateer captured in 1809.
  • Vautour, was a privateer from Bordeaux commissioned in July 1797, with 64 men and 10 guns under a Captain Bolle. HMS Matilda captured Vautour on 29 March 1798.[2][3]
  • Vautour, was a privateer cutter from an unknown harbour, commissioned in early 1797, that HMS Impetueux captured on 8 March 1797.[4]
  • Vautour was a Spanish felucca privateer of one 9-pounder gun and 54 men that HMS Fortunee captured off Altavella (the eastern point of the island of Santo Domingo) on 10 August 1804.[5]

Two privateers named Vautour appear in a list of 78 Corsairs commissioned in Boulogne during the period 1793-1814, with Captains Durand and Captain Orielle.[6]

Naval vessels

Citations

  1. "No. 13945". The London Gazette. 29 October 1796. p. 1029.
  2. Demerliac (1999), p. 272, 2399.
  3. Winfield (2008), p. 224.
  4. Demerliac (1999), p. 320, no.3051.
  5. "No. 15745". The London Gazette. 13 October 1804. p. 1283.
  6. Norman (1887), p. 399.
  7. "No. 15656". The London Gazette. 13 December 1803. p. 1759.

References

  • Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 A 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-24-1.
  • Norman, Charles Boswell (1887). The Corsairs of France. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 17931817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
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