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La Légère | 13739 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 18 | BG | |
| Nationality | République Française | ||
| Operator | Private Owners | ||
| Acquired | 1797 | BG | |
| Shipyard | Unknown | BG | |
| Category | Privateer | BG | |
| Ship Type | Corvette | BG | |
| Captured | 19.2.1798 | BG | |
Depart from Lorient
BGPhaeton, at Sea, February 21th, 1798.
My Lord, I have the honor to inform your Lordship, that on the 19th Instant, in consequence of the Vigilance of Captain White, in keeping sight of and making signals for a sail in the S.E in very thick and equally weather, I was enabled in His Majesty's Ship under my command, to come up with and capture a French Ship Privateer,. called La Legere, out 24 hours from Lorient, bound to the West Indies, mounting 14. 8-pounders and 4 32Ib. carronades, and manned with 130 men. La Legere was built for a corvette, and has been employed as such until these few months when she was fitted for a privateer, and sails so well, that her capture would have been considerably delayed, if she had not carried away her fore and main topmasts during the chace.
1 have the Honor to be, &c. &c. &c.
ROB. STOPFORD