French ship Infatigable (1798)

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Civil and Naval Ensign of France.svgFrance
NameInfatigable
BuilderNantes
Launched1798
Captured6 March 1799
Naval Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svgGreat Britain
NameHMS Dispatch
Acquired1799 by purchase of a prize
FateSold 7 September 1801
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen200,(French; "of load") [2] or 23762⁄94, or 238 [3] (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 90 ft 4 in (27.5 m)
  • Keel: 71 ft 0+7⁄8 in (21.7 m)
Beam25 ft 0+7⁄8 in (7.6 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 3 in (3.4 m)
Complement
  • Privateer: 120
  • RN:90
Armament

The French ship Infatigable was launched in 1798 at Nantes. She became a privateer that the British Royal Navy captured in 1799 and named HMS Dispatch. The Navy never commissioned Dispatch and sold her in 1801.

Infatigable was commissioned in December 1798 with 120 men and 18 guns. [2]

On 6 March 1799 HMS Ethalion captured the 18-gun privateer Infatigable in the Channel after a 10-hour chase. Infatigable was armed with 18 guns and had a crew of 120 men. She was only one day out of Nantes, provisioned for a four-month cruise. [4] "Indefatigable" arrived at Portsmouth on 25 March and was laid up. [1]

The "Principal officers and commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered Dispatch for sale on 24 August 1801. [3] She sold on 7 September for £765. [1]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Winfield (2008), p. 267.
  2. 1 2 Demerliac (1999), p. 262, n°2284.
  3. 1 2 "No. 15396". The London Gazette . 11 August 1801. p. 991.
  4. ↑ "No. 15119". The London Gazette . 26 March 1799. pp. 286–287.

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