Action du capitaine Elliot contre Thurot fevrier 1760

'Mount Aeolus', Bishopscourt Glen, Isle of Man - geograph

''Maréchal de Belleisle'' was a 46-gun

fourth-rate In 1603 all English warships with a compliment of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'. In 1625/26 to establish pay rates for officers a six tier naval ship rating system was introduced.Winfield 2009 These small ships were divided i ...

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of the

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built in 1757. Captained by

François Thurot François Thurot (22 July 1727 at Nuits-Saint-Georges near Dijon in eastern France – 28 February 1760 off the Isle of Man) was a French privateer, merchant naval captain and smuggler who raided British shipping during the Seven Years' War. Ea ...

she was captured in 1760. A memorial to the battle, called Mount Æolus, consisting of two cannons and the bowsprit of ''Maréchal de Belleisle'', which washed ashore on the Manx coast near Bishopscourt, was built in the grounds of

Bishopscourt, Isle of Man Bishopscourt (previously known as Ballacurry, in gv, the farm of McCurry or O'Curry) consists of a 17th-century mansion house, the St Nicholas (Private Chapel) in the Church of England Diocese of Sodor & Man, and the former estate of Ballachurr ...

. The wooden bowsprit was later replaced by an inscribed stone pillar."Francois Thuroy (1727-1760) and his naval engagement off the Isle of Man"
Manx Notes & Queries, ed. C. Roeder, 1904

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marechal De Belleisle Ships built in France Maritime incidents in 1760 1757 ships