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Le Sequier (Séguier)

19185
Nominal Guns12BWAS-1714
NationalityRoyaume de France
OperatorPrivate Owners
Acquired3.1762lesCorse
First Commissioned1762BWAS-1714
Home PortDunkerque - Flanders BG
ShipyardUnknownBWAS-1714
CategoryPrivateerBWAS-1714
Ship TypeSnowBG
Captured18.3.1762BWAS-1714

Dimensions


DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentlesCorse
Length of Keel65' 0"French Feet (Pied du Roi)21.112 (69′ 3″ Imperial)
Breadth22' 6"French Feet (Pied du Roi)7.2268 (23′ 8″ Imperial)
Burthen130French Tonneaux128.249 

Armament


18.3.1762Broadside Weight = 2.5 French Livre (2.698 lbs 1.224 kg)BG
Gun Deck10 French Swivel
Gun Deck12 French Canons de Fonte

Owners


DatesOwnerSource
1762/03 - 1762/03/18
Jean-Nicolas BricheFrench
Ship Owner
Service 1761-1762
Principal Managing Owner
lesCorse

Crew Complement


Date# of MenNotesSource
1762100 ref:692
18.3.176299 BG

1 Ship Commander


DatesRankNameSource
3.1762 - 18.3.1762Capitaine de Corsaire
Nicolas DuhamelFrench
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Service 1757-1762
lesCorse

Service History


DateEventSource
18.3.1762Taken by
Renown (30) 1747-1771
British 30 Gun
6th Rate Frigate
1748 Renamed "Renown"

18.3.1762Taken by
Adventure (32) 1758-1770
British 32 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
BG


Notes on Ship


CaptureBG

Admiralty Office, March 23 , 1762.

His Majesty's Ship the Adventure, commanded by Captain Charles Middleton, on the 18th of this Month, S. W. 8 leagues from Dunnoze, fell in with and took the Sequier, a French Privateer Snow, of 12 carriage guns, 10 swivels, and 99 men . She is a new vessel, sailed from Dunkirk last monday sennight on her first cruize, and had not taken any thing.


HomeportlesCorse

Dunkirk in englis description and in Les Corsaires , Boulogne



 
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