French Privateer 'Le Prudent' (1692)

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Le Prudent
Nominal Guns	44	FWIKI
Nationality	Royaume de France
Operator	Private Owners
Extant	12.1692	FWIKI
First Commissioned	1694	FWIKI
Home Port	St Malo - Brittany	ref:692
Shipyard	Bayonne - Aquitaine	FWIKI
Category	Privateer	FWIKI
Ship Type	Unknown	FWIKI
Last known	1694	FWIKI

Dimensions

DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:692
Burthen450French Tonneaux441.529
DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:693
Burthen350Tonneaux

Armament

1696Broadside Weight Unknownref:692
Gun Deck40 French Canons de Fer

Owners

DatesOwnerSource
1692 - 1697 Principal Managing Ownerref:692

Crew Complement

Date# of MenNotesSource
1696288 ref:692

2 Ship Commanders

DatesRankNameSource
18.12.1692 - 1694Capitaine de Corsaireref:6931696 - 1697Capitaine de Corsaireref:692

1 Commissioned Officer

DatesRankNameSource
1696Lieutenant de Corsaire , Private Owners , rank ?ref:631

Service History

DateEventSource
28.7.1693Battle of Bear Bay
20.9.1693Took the Ship of the Line ref:695
10.9.1694Battle of Ferryland
1696

From 1696 to 1697 , under Captain Gouin , took the ships "St Philippe" , "Amiguette" , "Hopewell" , "Heart" , "Espérance" , "Marie" , "Armes d'Hambourg" , "Charité" , "Sérieux" , "Aventure" , "Pécheur" , ...

ref:692
23.5.1696Took the Merchantman at 25 lieues off the Isles of Scilly .ref:1010

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

FWIKIVarious, Web Site

ref:1010Administration, Document

ref:631 Web Site

ref:692Jean Jacques Salein, Web Site

ref:693Gérard Anglade, Web Site

ref:695Philippe Henrat, Web Site

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Posted by Gérard ANGLADE on Sunday 3rd of July 2016 13:22

• 07/1693: bataille de la Baie des Ours dans le Spitsberg.
Le capitaine Jacques Gouin de Beauchêne commande le Prudent.
o Source d’origine en français: AN Marine B/4/14 (2) f°521 à 527
o Source en anglais : Philippe Henrat hachettp://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-4-544.pdf

Posted by Gérard ANGLADE on Tuesday 28th of June 2016 15:39

• Acquired : 1692/12
• Shipyard : Bayonne
• Shiptype : Privateer Frigate
• 500 tons, 44 guns
• Commander from 1692/12 to 1694/12 : Privateer Captain (and owner) Jacques Gouin de Beauchènes (1652-1730)
• Battle of Bear Bay (Spitsbergen) : 1693/06 Source France AN Marine B/4/14 (2) f°522

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