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Le Turot | 29984 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 4 | BG | |
| Nationality | République Française | ||
| Operator | Private Owners | ||
| Acquired | 1796 | BG | |
| Shipyard | Unknown | BG | |
| Category | Privateer | BG | |
| Ship Type | Cutter | BG | |
| Captured | 12.9.1796 | BG | |
Admiralty-Office, September 15, 1796.
Copy of a letter from Admiral Peyton, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships in the Downs, to Evan Nepean, Esq, dated September 14, 1796.
Copy a letter I have this day received from Mr. Nick. Simmonds, Master of the Lion armed Cutter, he acquaints me, that at 6 o'Clock on the morning of the 12th instant, Beachy Head bearing N. by W. distance about 3 leagues, he descried a French Cutter Privateer within him, and immediately gave chace; the Privateer finding that Lion was determined to keep without him, at 7 o'Clock, bore down, and, after exchanging several shot, struck to the Lion, and proved to be the Turot, 4 days from Havre de Grace, commanded by Bernard Emanuel Turat, having 4 4-pounders and 6 swivels, a number of small arms, and 25 men. She had taken nothing during the cruize.