French Privateer Vengeur

Numerous French privateers have borne the name ''Vengeur'' ("Avenger"):

French Revolutionary Wars

*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer of 12 guns that captured on 1 October 1793.
*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer that captured in the West Indies on 22 February 1794.
*''Vengeur'' was a privateer commissioned at Île de France circa September 1793 under Captain Corosin (or Carosin) with 250 men and thirty-four 8&6-pounder guns. The East Indiaman and country ship captured her on 22 January 1794 during the Sunda Strait campaign of January 1794. She had sustained 37 killed and wounded. By one report, the Dutch at Batavia purchased ''Vengeur'' and would send her in July to Mauritius as a cartel with the French prisoners.
*''Vengeur'', French privateer cutter of 18 guns and 130 men. ''Lloyd's List'' reported on 22 September 1795 that ''Vengeur'' had captured several British merchant vessels.
*''Vengeur'', privateer of 18 guns and 110 men, that captured on 27 October 1796.
*''Voltiguer'' was a French privateer schooner, formally the lugger ''Venguer''. captured her on 14 April 1797 off Flamborough Head and took her into the Humber.
*''Vengeur des Francois'' was a French privateer of four guns and 35 men, belonging to Guadeloupe, that captured off Dominica on 18 June 1797.
*''Vengeur'' was a new privateer schooner of 12 guns and 72 men that , , and captured on 11 January 1798.
*''Vengeur'' was a French letter of marque of six guns and 36 men that HMS ''Amaranthe'' captured on 13 April 1799 after a fierce and sanguinary engagement.
*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer cutter of 14 guns and 105 men that captured on 28 April 1799. She was a 50-ton (French; "of load") cutter commissioned at Dunkirk in October 1795 under Joseph-Jean Allemès. She was under his command until July 1796 when Captain Margollé replaced him. Allemès resumed command in 1797, and under his command she captured numerous British vessels. Later that year Francois Sauvage-Cornu took command. In 1799 Benjamin-Richard Carny took command; at that time she had a crew of 58 men and carried 14 guns. Lastly, Charles Louis Tack replaced Carny. He sailed with 98 to 105 men and 12 to 14 guns.
*''Vengeur'' was a French schooner (the former ), of eight guns and 80 men, that recaptured on 24 November 1799.
*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer brig of six long 4-pounders and ten 18-pounder carronades, and a crew of 102 men that ''Indefatigable'' captured on 12 June 1800. ''Indefatigable'' shared the prize money with .
*''Vengeur'' was a French privateer lugger of two large swivel guns and 17 men that the hired armed cutter ''Swan'' captured on 1 March 1801.
*''Vengeur'' was a privateer that captured on 11 January 1800.

Napoleonic Wars

*''Vengeur'' was a privateer lugger of 14 guns and 56 men that captured on 13 November 1806.
*''Vengeur'' was a felucca-rigged privateer of one gun and some 50 men that the boats of captured on 20 November 1805; ''Vengeur'' sank as she was being towed.
*''Vengeur'' was a privateer of 16 guns and 48 men that captured on 24 January 1809. She had been the schooner , which the French had captured in 1806.
*''Vengeur'' was a lugger privateer that captured on 17 October 1810.

See also

* French ship ''Vengeur'' - seven French naval vessels that bore the name ''Vengeur'', or a derivative of it.

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