French Privateer 'Le César' (1798)

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Le César
Nominal Guns	16	BWAS-1793
Nationality	République Française
Operator	Private Owners
Acquired	1798	BWAS-1793
Home Port	St Malo - Brittany	ref:692
Shipyard	Unknown	BWAS-1793
Category	Privateer	BWAS-1793
Ship Type	Unknown	BWAS-1793
Captured	27.3.1798	BWAS-1793

Dimensions

DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:692
Burthen153French Tonneaux150.766

Owners

DatesOwnerSource
1797/09 - 1798/03/27, ref:692

Crew Complement

Date# of MenNotesSource
179879 ref:692

1 Ship Commander

DatesRankNameSource
9.1797 - 27.3.1798Capitaine de Corsaireref:692

Service History

DateEventSource
1798

Build value : 55684 Livres Tournois

Took the ships "St Georges" and "Honchim Sinley"

Part wage for the cruise : 166-4 Livres Tournois

ref:692
27.3.1798Taken by in the Channel after a cruise of 35 days from BrestBG

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

BGOfficial, Web Site

BWAS-1793Rif Winfield, Book

ref:692Jean Jacques Salein, Web Site

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Posted by Sjoerd de Meer on Wednesday 30th of July 2025 09:54

Took the Prussian ship St. George on 20 February 1798.
Source Municipal Archives Amsterdam, 5075, invnr 15922, no. 696, July 5th. 1798 (notary Engelbertus Marinus Dorper)

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