|
} |} The French brig ''Amarante'' (equally ''Amaranthe''), was launched in 1793 at Honfleur for the French Navy. The British Royal Navy captured her at the end of 1796 and took her into service as HMS ''Amaranthe''. She captured one French vessel in a single-ship action before she was wrecked near Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1799. ==French service and capture== ''Amarante'' was the name ship of a two-vessel class of 12-gun brigs built to a design by Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait. She was also the first vessel that Joseph-Augustin Normand built at Honfleur for the French Navy. Between February 1794 and December, she was under the command of ''enseigne de vaisseau'' Jacques-Philippe Delamare and escorted convoys from to Le Havre to Brest.〔''Fonds Marine'', p.55.〕 Between February 1795 and May, she escorted convoys between Saint-Malo and Dieppe, and performed fisheries protection duties for the Dieppoise fishermen.〔''Fonds Marine'', p.84.〕 She then protected the herring fisheries in the Channel. Delamare was suspended in 1798 as a terrorist by order of the representative of the people Boissier. He was reinstated some months later and sent to Brest. A decree of the Public Safety Committee, dated 22 September, confirmed him in command of ''Amarante''.〔 captured ''Amarante'' off Alderney on 31 December 1796. The letter in the ''London Gazette'' describes her as a brig of twelve 6-pounder guns, and nine men. She was sailing from Le Havre to Brest. She had no casualties.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French brig Amarante (1793)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|