During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many French

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s and letters of marque bore the name ''Duguay-Trouin'', named for

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: René Trouin, Sieur du Gué (10 June 1673–1736), French

, admiral and Commander in the

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. Between 1760 and 1810, warships of the

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captured seven different French privateers all with the name ''Duguay-Trouin''. In British records the name is sometimes given as ''Du Guay Trouin'', ''Dugai Trouin'', ''Drigai Trouin'', or ''Guay Trouin''. * ''Du Guay Trouin'', a privateer that captured on 30 December 1760. * was a 150-tonne French privateer sloop of 168 men and 18 to 20 guns, under Pierre-Denis Ducassou, that captured in on 29 January 1780 and brought to Plymouth where the British

took her into service. The Navy sold ''Duguay-Trouin'' on 30 October 1783. She then became the mercantile

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and slaver ''Christopher'', and was lost in 1804. Duguaitrouin-Antoine Roux-p24

* Privateer ''Duguay-Trouin'' (1793), a privateer from Marseille, that

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depicted under construction. * Privateer ''Duguay-Trouin'' (1793—1794), the British 805-tonne East Indiaman ''Princess Royal'', commissioned in 1786 and captured in the

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on 27 September 1793 by three French privateers. She was recommissioned as a privateer frigate at Isle de France in December 1793, under Julien Tréhouart des Chesnais, with 403 men and 34 guns (twenty-six 12-pounder, two 9-pounder, and six 4-pounder guns). A British squadron comprising , , and engaged her; ''Duguay-Trouin'' sustained 21 killed and 60 wounded before she surrendered. * Privateer ''Duguay-Trouin'' of 22 guns that captured on 15 July 1797. * Privateer ''Duguay-Trouin'' that captured on 2 February 1798. She had been built in 1782 and was the former merchantman and slave trader (''Baron Bender''). In 1793 made a cruise as a privateer and then the French Navy requisitioned her as a corvette. In May 1795 it renamed her ''Calypso''. After about three years the Navy returned her to her owners. She cruised again as the privateer ''Duguay-Troiun'' until her capture. * Privateer ''Duguay-Trouin'' (1796—1797), a 250-ton privateer brig from Nantes of 100 to 127 men and 22 guns (20 6-pounders and 2 12-pounder carronades). She did a cruise under Ensign Pierre-Fabien Lejeune from late 1796 to early 1797, and two under Jean Dutache between March 1797 and July 1797. The 36-gun frigate HMS ''Doris'' captured her on 27 July 1797. * Privateer ''Duguay-Trouin'' (1798), a privateer from Bordeaux, under Destebetcho. Possibly captured by the 36-gun frigate HMS ''Doris'' on 8 July 1798. * Privateer ''Duguay-Trouin'' (1804), a three-masted ship from Saint-Malo, commissioned in April 1804, ferrying 160 soldiers to Martinique under Henri-Pierre-Michel Lemaître, of 99 men and 16 guns. Wrecked near

Audierne Audierne (; br, Gwaien) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016 the former commune of Esquibien merged into Audierne.HMS ''Unite'' captured on 19 May 1810. * . This ''Duguay Trouin'' may have been the schooner that and captured on 30 March 1809. This letter of marque was commissioned in April to carry eight guns. She then served in Sir

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's squadron. * Privateer ''Duguay-Trouin'' of 14 guns that captured on 19 January 1810. She was out of Brest and had a burthen of 163 tons, or 193, a length of and beam of ."Advertisements & Notices". ''Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser'' (Exeter, England), 1 March 1810; Issue 2317.

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