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''Utile'' was a gabarre of the French Royal Navy, launched in 1784. The British captured her in the Mediterranean in 1796 and she served briefly there before being laid up in 1797 and sold in 1798. ==French service and capture== ''Utile'' was launched in early 1784 at Bayonne. In August 1793 an Anglo-Spanish force captured Toulon and Royalist forces turned over to them the French naval vessels in the port. When the Anglo-Spanish force had to leave in December, they took with them the best vessels and tried to burn the remainder. In November and December 1794 she was at Toulon undergoing repairs and refitting. She was to be renamed ''Zibeline'' in 1795, but apparently she retained her original name.〔 Around midday of 9 June 1796, Admiral John Jervis, Commander-in-Chief of the British Fleet in the Mediterranean, called Captain James Macnamara of the frigate on board his ship ''Victory'', and pointed out a French corvette that was working her way up among the Hyères islands. Jervis then directed Macnamara "to make a Dash at her".〔 Macnamara immediately set out, sailing the Grande Passe, or passage between the islands of Porquerolles and Port-cros. That evening ''Southampton'' captured ''Utile'' by boarding, with Lieutenant Charles Lydiard at the head of the boarding party. ''Utile'' was armed with twenty-four 6-pounder guns and was under the protection of a battery. She had a crew of 136 men under the command of Citizen François Veza. The French put up a resistance during which they suffered eight killed, including Veza, and 17 wounded; ''Southampton'' had one man killed. It was not until early the next morning that ''Southampton'' and ''Utile'' were finally able to get out of range of the guns of Fort de Brégançon. , , and the hired armed cutter ''Fox'' were in company at the time, and with the British fleet outside Toulon. They shared with ''Southampton'' in the proceeds of the capture, as did , , , and . 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「Utile (1784)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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