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Le Braconnier | 23189 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 10 | BWAS-1793 | |
| Nationality | Empire Français | ||
| Operator | Private Owners | ||
| Acquired | 1810 | ref:692 | |
| Shipyard | Unknown | BWAS-1793 | |
| Category | Privateer | BWAS-1793 | |
| Ship Type | Lugger | BG | |
| Captured | 3.2.1811 | BWAS-1793 | |
Depart from St Valery en Caux
ref:692Admiralty-Office, February 5, 1811.
Copy of a Letter from Captain George Downie, of His Majesty's Sloop Royalist addressed to Vice-admiral Campbell, and transmitted by the Vice-Admiral to John Wilson Croker, Efq.
His Majefty's Sloop Royalist, Dowries, SIR, 3 February 1811
I beg leave to inform you, that His Majefty's Sloop under my command, being yesterday morning between St. Valery en Caux and Fecamp, a sail was seen at daylight, to which we gave chafe, and soon after made her out to be one of the enemy's privateers ; the wind having veered round from South to South East we were brought upon a wind ; at One P. M. between Estaples and Boulogne, the Captilian joined in chafe, with the advantage of the weather gage, and obliged her to tack ; at Four we brought her to, nearly together, and found her to be the Lugger Privateer Le Braconnier, of 10 guns, (thrown overboard in the chafe,) and 47 men; out 2 days from St. Valery en Caux, and had made no captures.
I have the Honour to be, &c.
GEORGE DOWNIE, Captain
in 1810 and 1811 , same homeport St Valery en Caux