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HMS Seaforth (1805)
HMS ''Seaforth'' was the French privateer ''Dame Ernouf'', which captured in 1805. The Royal Navy took her into service, but she foundered later that year.
==Capture==
On 8 February 1805, ''Curieux'' chased the French privateer ''Dame Ernouf'' (or ''Madame Ernouf'') for twelve hours before ''Curieux'' was able to bring her to action. After forty minutes of hard fighting the captain of ''Dame Ernouf'', which had a crew almost twice as many crew members as ''Curieux'', manoeuvred to attempt a boarding. Commander George Edmund Byron Bettesworth anticipated this and put his helm a-starboard, catching ''Dame Ernouf''s jib-boom so that he could rake her. Unable to fight back, ''Dame Ernouff'' struck.〔Moore and Macpherson (1926), p.36.〕 The action cost ''Curieux'' five men killed and four wounded, including Bettesworth, who took a hit in his head from a musket ball. ''Dame Ernouf'' had 30 men killed and 41 wounded. She carried 16 French long 6-pounder guns and had a crew of 120. This was the same armament as ''Curieux'' carried, but in a smaller vessel. Bettesworth opined that she had fought so gallantly because her captain was also a part-owner.〔 She was 20 days out of Guadeloupe and had taken one brig, which, however, had recaptured.〔
The British took ''Dame Ernouf'' into service as HMS ''Seaforth'', presumably naming her after Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, then Governor of Barbados. The Navy commissioned her under Lieutenant George Steel (or Steele).〔Winfield (2008), p.348.〕
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