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} |} ''Brave'', launched at Le Havre in 1793, was the name vessel of a two-vessel class of brig-rigged ''canonnières'', i.e., gun-brigs. The French Navy renamed her ''Arrogante'' in May 1795. The Royal Navy captured her on 23 or 24 April 1798. She was taken into the Royal Navy under her existing name, but renamed HMS ''Insolent'' some four months later. She was sold in June 1818. ==French career== As the ''corvette-canonnière'' ''Brave'', she was stationed at the Bay of Audierne. Between 4 February 1793 and 7 August she was under the command of ''sous-lieutenant de vaisseau'' (later ''lieutenant de vaisseau'') Massard and escorted convoys between Le Havre and Brest.〔''Fonds Marine'', p. 56.〕 From 27 August to 25 October she was under the command of ''enseigne de vaisseau non entretenu'' Bourhis.〔 Between 11 April 1794 and 28 July she was stationed first at Verdon and then at the Gironde estuary. There she carried dispatches from Brest to Verdon.〔''Fonds Marine'', p. 87.〕 Still under Bourhis's command, between 13 May 1795 to 8 July, ''Brave'' sailed from Brest à Audierne, where she then was stationed in the bay, before returning to Brest. Next she was at Camaret roads, and then escorted a transport from le Conquet to Brest.〔''Fonds Marine'', p.147.〕 In May 1795 the French Navy renamed ''Brave'' to ''Arrogante'', and changed her classification from ''corvette-canonnière'' to ''canonnière''.〔 On 21 April 1796 ''Arrogante'' was under the command of ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Le Bastard when she engaged a British squadron in the Audierne roads.〔''Fonds Marine'', p. 182.〕 On 25 July 1797 she was at Brest and still under Le Bastard's command.〔''Fonds Marine'', p. 194.〕 Almost exactly two years later, on 23 April 1798 ''Arrogante'' was under the command of ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Lambour and escorting a convoy between Audierne and Brest. French records report that while she was in the Iroise Sea she encountered two English frigates, and .〔''Fonds Marine'', p. 215.〕 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 Brave (1793)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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