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French ship Sophie (1790)
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The French ship ''Sophie'' was a slave vessel launched at Nantes in May 1790. Her owners commissioned her there as a privateer in 1793 after the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars. The French Navy, desperate for escort vessels, requisitioned her 21 April 1794. In May 1795 the French Navy returned her to her owners for use as a privateer. captured her off the Irish Coast in September 1798. The Royal Navy then took ''Sophie'' into service. She then served in the North Sea, Baltic, Mediterranean, and East Indies until she was broken up in 1809.
==Capture==
When ''Endymion'' captured ''Sophie'', ''Sophie'' had been out 82 days, but had taken nothing. She was armed with 22 guns and had a crew of 130 men. Captain Thomas Williams, of ''Endymion'', described ''Sophie'' as: ... a very fine Ship, quite new, and well adapted for His Majesty's Service, being an extraordinary fast Sailer; she having been chased Eight different Times during her last Cruize by our Ships of War, and each time escaped by superior Sailing.
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