''Deux Frères'' was a tartane that the

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had requisitioned in March 1798 at Marseille and commissioned as a transport. A British division under the command of Commodore Sir Sidney Smith in captured her on 18 March 1799 at the siege of Acre in 1799. She was one of a flotilla of seven vessels and Smith took all into the

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. At the time of her capture ''Deux Frères'' was armed with four guns and had a crew of 23 men. One of the seven captured vessels was lost in a gale at the siege; the lost vessel was almost certainly ''Deux Freres'' as the other six have a readily identifiable subsequent history.

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