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} |} ''Vénus'' was a corvette of the French Navy that the British captured in 1800.〔French sources refer to her as a corvette of 28-guns, however in British service she was classified as a sloop.〕 Renamed HMS ''Scout'', she served briefly in the Channel before being wrecked by accident in 1801, a few days after taking a major prize. ==French service== ''Vénus'' was begun in Bordeaux in 1793 as a privateer but the French Navy bought her while she was still on the stocks. She was launched in January 1794 as the ''Vengeance'' and completed for service in the following April, but was renamed ''Vénus'' in May 1795.〔 The French commissioned her as a corvette and initially armed her with 26 guns: twenty-two 8-pounders on her upper deck and four 4-pounders on her galliards, i.e. her quarterdeck and forecastle. By 1796 she had had 4 ''obusiers'' added on her gaillards, but by July 1798 these had been removed and she carried ten 4-pounder guns on her galliards. ''Vénus'' took part in the Expédition d'Irlande and under the command of Captain André Senez, was in Commodore Savary's squadron at the Battle of Tory Island. 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 corvette Vénus (1794)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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