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HMS Coureur
Three vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Coureur'', or HMS ''Coureuse'', after the French for "runner" (masculine and feminine, respectively):
==''Coureur''==
* was a French lugger that Jacques and Daniel Denys built at Dunkirk and launched on 8 May 1776.〔Demerliac (1996), p.84, #550.〕 , under the command of Lieutenant William George Fairfax, engaged and captured her on 17 June 1778, in advance of the declaration of war. In the engagement ''Coureur'', under the command of ''Enseigne'' de Rosily, had five men killed and seven wounded out of her crew of 50. ''Alert'' had four men wounded, two mortally. The British took ''Coureur'' into the Royal Navy under her existing name. She was under the command of Lieutenant Christopher Major on 21 June 1780 when two American privateers, the ''Fortune'' and the ''Griffin'', captured her outside Bonavista Bay after an action that cost her three men killed and four wounded.〔Hepper (1994), p.58-9.〕 The Americans put Major and 30 of his men aboard ''Griffin'', which fell prey the next day to .
* was a French navy corvette, lent to merchants to serve as a privateer of the same name but under the command of French naval officers. In November 1793 she was on a mission to Île de France under ''Lieutenant de vaisseaux'' Garaud.〔Fonds, Vol. 1, p.58.〕 On 22 October the following year, and fought an action with the 44-gun French frigates ''Prudente'' and ''Cybèle'', plus the 22-gun ''Jean-Bart'' and 14-gun ''Courrier'' off Île de France.〔Fonds, Vol. 1, p.83.〕 captured her on 24 February 1798. At the time of her capture, ''Coureur'' was armed with 24 guns and had a crew of 150 men. The Royal Navy named and registered her on 1 June, but never commissioned her. She was put up for sale as "''Coureur'' 355 tons burthen" in August 1801, and sold at Plymouth for £1,400 on 14 September.〔Winfield (2008), p.266.〕
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