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} |} HMS ''Sartine'' was a French merchant vessel from Bordeaux. The French Navy pressed her into service in 3 August 1778 to assist in the defense of Pondichéry.〔Demerliac (1996), p.151, #1296.〕 The British captured her during the Siege of Pondicherry (1778), and took her into service under her existing name. HMS ''Sartine'' foundered in action off Calicut in November 1780. ==Career== In 1775 the shipowner Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat (1719-97) decided to finance an expedition to the East Indies in order to take advantage of the opportunity presented by a relaxation of the monopoly on the trade hitherto awarded to the French East India Company at Lorient. He commissioned the construction of a vessel in 1775, the ''Sartine'' which left France on 19 September 1776 with instructions to sell her cargo on the Malabar coast, pick up a cargo for China, there pick up a cargo of silks and other textiles for France, and return in 1778. ''Sartine'' reached Colombo on 2 February 1777. From there she sailed to Cochin, Mahé, Mangalore, Goa, Surat and Chaoul, then an important trading port about 30 kilometers south of Bombay. On 24 August she sailed for China via Ceylon and the Strait of Malacca. Hurricane damage in October forced ''Sartine'' to abandon the voyage to China and instead to return to Malacca for repairs. By 14 January 1778 ''Sartine'' was at Pondicherry. From there she made a trading voyage to Karaikal, like Mahé and Pondichéry a French colony. After her return to Pondichéry, the French government requisitioned ''Sartine'' and armed her for the defense of the colony against the British. On 10 August 1778, ''Sartine'' was part of a squadron under Admiral François l'Ollivier de Tronjoly, which consisted of the 64-gun ship of the line ''Brillant'', the frigate ''Pourvoyeuse'' and three smaller ships, ''Sartine'', ''Lawriston'', and ''Brisson''. The French encountered Admiral Edward Vernon's squadron, consisting of (Vernon's flagship), , , , and the East India Company's ship ''Valentine'', early on the morning. An inconclusive action followed for about two hours in mid-afternoon. The French broke off the action and the British vessels were too damaged to be able to catch them up again. In the action the British suffered 11 men killed and 53 wounded.〔Anon. (1801), Section: Pon.〕 ''Seahorse'' captured ''Sartine'' on 25 August 1778. ''Sartine'' had been patrolling off Pondichéry with ''Pourvoyeuse'' when they sighted two East Indiamen, which were sailing blithely along, unaware of the outbreak of war. The French vessels gave chase lazily. ''Sartine''s captain, Count du Chaillar (or Blanquet du Chayla), first had to be roused from his bed ashore. The British merchant vessels escaped, but ''Sartine'' came too close to Vernon's squadron. Vernon sent ''Coventry'' and ''Seahorse'' to engage ''Sartine''. ''Brisson'' sailed to support ''Sartine'', but ''Valentine'' intercepted ''Brisson'', which retreated. ''Sartine'' then surrendered after a short action. A French account remarks acidly that she surrendered to a frigate of her own size without a fight.〔Barras (1895), Vol. 1, pp.371-2.〕 All four Royal Navy vessels in Vernon's squadron shared in the prize money. (Vernon had already sent ''Valentine'' off with dispatches.) Tronjoly Chief and his deputy, Saint-Orens, captain of ''Pourvoyeuse'' have been criticized for not engaging Vernon and ''Rippon'', despite orders from Guillaume-Léonard de Bellecombe, governor of Pondicherry, to do so. The Royal Navy took ''Sartine'' into service as the fifth-rate frigate ''Sartine''. She was commissioned on 10 February 1779 under Captain Alexander M'Coy. After his death, Captain Robert Simonton took command in 1780. 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「HMS Sartine (1778)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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