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L'Actif | 22257 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 14 | BWAS-1793 | |
| Nationality | Empire Français | ||
| Operator | Private Owners | ||
| Acquired | 1808 | BWAS-1793 | |
| Home Port | Dieppe - Normandy | BG | |
| Shipyard | Unknown | BWAS-1793 | |
| Category | Privateer | BWAS-1793 | |
| Ship Type | Lugger | BG | |
| Captured | 4.4.1808 | BWAS-1793 | |
Took the ship "Mars"
ref:692Depart with 2 others privateers from Cherbourg
BGHis Majestfs Ship Medusa, Dunnose N. W. E.W. 11 Leagues , April 4 , 1808.
Sir , I have the honour to inform you, that I have this morning captured L'Actif, Lugger Privateer, of Dieppe, of 14 guns. There were 2 other French Lugger Privateers in sight at the time, one of which being very near to Leeward of us , I have every reason to expect we should have taken, but that it was necessary to examine 4 merchant vessels, among which the privateers were when we first saw them : One of these, a coasting sloop, we retook ; the others had not been boarded by the privateers. The 3 privateers left Cherbourg together yesterday morning; and last night took a coasting sloop besides the one abovementioned, which we have not seen. L'Actif, as it appears by her log. book, has made but one capture, a collier brig, during her different cruizes in the Channel, since her first fit out in the beginning of December last,
l am, &c. (Signed) D. P. BOUVERIE.
To George Montagu, Esq; Admiral of the White,
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