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French ship Brutus (1780)
''Brutus'' was a merchant ship built in 1780 at Bordeaux. She was commissioned as a privateer in 1793 at Bordeaux. However, the French Navy purchased her in September 1793 at Brest and classed her as a corvette. The French Navy later converted her to a brig. captured her on 10 October 1795.
==Career==
The French Navy re-rigged ''Brutus'' as a brig at Brest either in 1793 or in May 1795.〔 She carried out two diplomatic missions to the United States during 1794. In February 1794, she arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, with the news of the imminent arrival of a squadron under Van Stabel carrying Joseph Faucher to replace Citoyen Genêt as the French ambassador to the USA to replace Edmond-Charles Genêt.〔Williams (2009), p.16.〕 She also brought despatches to Van Stabel.
''Brutus'' was renamed ''Célère'' in May 1795 in France. but was still operating under the name ''Brutus'' when ''Mermaid'' captured her. She was refitted with a coppered hull and a brig rigging before her naval commission. 〔Demerliac, p.83, no 481〕
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