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Entreprenante

HMS Entreprenante

Survived

French Navy, then Royal Navy

TypeSloop
Guns10 guns
WarNapoleonic Wars

Service

1799Entreprenante
France
from 1799Entreprenante

Captured

Britain

Hired cutter, captured from the French in 1798. Picked up survivors of the French Achille at Trafalgar.

The Royal Navy armed cutter Entreprenante shadowing the remnants of the Franco-Spanish fleet as it runs into Cadiz after the disastrous defeat at Trafalgar Photo: Thomas Buttersworth, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • Originally: 10 × 4-pounder guns
  • From December 1803: 10 × 12-pounder carronades
Commissioned1799
Length67 ft (20.4 m) (overall), 51 ft 6 in (15.7 m) (keel)
Complement40

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Commissioned

1799

Joined the Royal Navy

1799 · Captured

Battle of Trafalgar
Survived

21 October 1805

Fate

Survived

Broken up in June 1812