''Concorde'' was a 40-gun
frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
of the
French Navy. The
Royal Navy captured her in August 1800.
Service history
On 27 May 1793, ''Concorde'' captured the 24-gun ; she became the
privateer ''Hyene'', which the Royal Navy recaptured in 1797.
''Concorde'' took part in the
Expédition d'Irlande, and on 12 October 1798, in aftermath of the
Battle of Tory Island
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.
''Concorde'' was part of a squadron of three frigates, ''Concorde'' under Commodore
Jean-François Landolphe
Jean-François Landolphe (5 February 1747, Auxonne – 1825, Paris) was a French naval commander.
Life
In 1786 he was sent to the coast of Africa to set up trading posts. He was defeated by a British force in the action of 4 August 1800
The ...
, under Captain
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, and under Captain
Pierre Jurien, with Landolphe as the overall commander, that left
Rochefort
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on 6 March 1799. Eluding the British blockade off Rochefort, the squadron sailed southwards until it reached the coast of West Africa. There, Landolphe's ships began an extended
commerce raiding operation, inflicting severe damage on the West African trade. During this time, the squadron captured the Portuguese island of
Prince (Príncipe).
[Fonds, Vol. 1, p.244.] Eventually the strain of serving in tropical waters told on the ships and all three were forced to undergo an extensive refit in the nearest available allied shipyards, which were located in the Spanish-held
River Plate in South America. At Montevideo the squadron assisted the French prisoners that had captured and taken into that port the convict transport which was carrying them to Australia.
Repairs continued for six months, until Landolphe considered the squadron once again ready to sail in the early summer of 1800. The squadron almost immediately captured off the coast of Brazil the American schooner ''Espérance'' (''Hope''), which they used as an
aviso and sent to
Cayenne
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with a prize crew under the command of ''enseigne de vaisseau'' Hamon.
[ (At the time, France and the United States had been engaged for two years in the ]Quasi War
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.)
Fate
The fourth rate , captured ''Concorde'' off Rio de Janeiro at the action of 4 August 1800
The action of 4 August 1800 was a highly unusual naval engagement that took place off the Brazilian coast during the French Revolutionary Wars. A French frigate force that had been raiding British commerce off West Africa approached and attem ...
. The British sailed her to port in Britain but the Royal Navy did not take her into service.[Winfield & Roberts p.137]
Citations
References
*Fonds Marine. Campagnes (opérations; divisions et stations navales; missions diverses). Inventaire de la sous-série Marine BB4. Tome premier: BB4 1 à 209 (1790-1804)
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Nymphe-class frigates
1791 ships
Maritime incidents in 1800
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