Duguay-Trouin (French privateer)

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Guay Trouin of 1780, (alternative spelling DuGuay Trouin)

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many French privateers and letters of marque bore the name Duguay-Trouin, named for René Duguay-Trouin: René Trouin, Sieur du Gué (10 June 1673 – 1736), French privateer, admiral and Commander in the Order of Saint Louis. Between 1760 and 1810, warships of the Royal Navy captured seven different French privateers all with the name Duguay-Trouin.

In British records the name is sometimes given as Du Guay Trouin, Dugai Trouin, Drigai Trouin, or Guay Trouin.

  • Du Guay Trouin, a privateer that Tweed captured on 30 December 1760.[1]
  • HMS Duguay-Trouin was a 150-tonne French privateer sloop of 168 men and 18 to 20 guns, under Pierre-Denis Ducassou, that Surprise captured in on 29 January 1780 and brought to Plymouth where the British Royal Navy took her into service. The Navy sold Duguay-Trouin on 30 October 1783. She then became the mercantile West Indiaman and slaver Christopher, and was lost in 1804.[2]
Duguay-Trouin (1793), from Marseille.
  • Privateer Duguay-Trouin (1793), a privateer from Marseille, that Antoine Roux depicted under construction.[3]
  • Privateer Duguay-Trouin (1793—1794), the British 805-tonne East Indiaman Princess Royal, commissioned in 1786 and captured in the Sunda Strait on 27 September 1793 by three French privateers. She was recommissioned as a privateer frigate at Isle de France in December 1793, under Julien Tréhouart des Chesnais, with 403 men and 34 guns (twenty-six 12-pounder, two 9-pounder, and six 4-pounder guns). A British squadron comprising HMS Centurion, Resistance, and Orpheus engaged her; Duguay-Trouin sustained 21 killed and 60 wounded before she surrendered.[4]
  • Privateer Duguay-Trouin of 22 guns that Doris captured on 15 July 1797.[5]
  • Privateer Duguay-Trouin that Shannon captured on 2 February 1798. She had been built in 1782 and was the former merchantman and slave trader Baron de Binder (Baron Bender). In 1793 made a cruise as a privateer and then the French Navy requisitioned her as a corvette. In May 1795 it renamed her Calypso. After about three years the Navy returned her to her owners. She cruised again as the privateer Duguay-Troiun until her capture.
  • Privateer Duguay-Trouin (1796—1797), a 250-ton privateer brig from Nantes of 100 to 127 men and 22 guns (20 6-pounders and 2 12-pounder carronades). She did a cruise under Ensign Pierre-Fabien Lejeune from late 1796 to early 1797, and two under Jean Dutache between March 1797 and July 1797. The 36-gun frigate HMS Doris captured her on 27 July 1797.[6]
  • Privateer Duguay-Trouin (1798), a privateer from Bordeaux, under Destebetcho. Possibly captured by the 36-gun frigate HMS Doris on 8 July 1798.[7]
  • Privateer Duguay-Trouin (1804), a three-masted ship from Saint-Malo, commissioned in April 1804, ferrying 160 soldiers to Martinique under Henri-Pierre-Michel Lemaître, of 99 men and 16 guns. Wrecked near Audierne on 30 June 1804.[8]
  • Privateer Du Guay Trouin, commissioned in Brest in June 1804, of 10 guns and 116 men, that HMS Unite captured on 19 May 1810.[9][10]
  • HMS Duguay-Trouin. This Duguay Trouin may have been the schooner that Ferret and Hussar captured on 30 March 1809.[11] This letter of marque was commissioned in April to carry eight guns. She then served in Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron.[12]
  • Privateer Duguay-Trouin of 14 guns that Narcissus captured on 19 January 1810.[13][14] She was out of Brest and had a burthen of 163 tons,[15] or 19339⁄94, a length of 85 ft 5 in (26.0 m) and beam of 23 ft 7 in (7.2 m).[16]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ "No. 100663". The London Gazette. 30 December 1760. p. 7.
  2. ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 181, n°1763.
  3. ^ Demerliac (1999), p. 282, n°2529.1.
  4. ^ Demerliac (1999), p. 302, n°2895.
  5. ^ "No. 14033". The London Gazette. 1 August 1797. p. 732.
  6. ^ Demerliac (1999), p. 257, n°2232.
  7. ^ Demerliac (1999), p. 271, n°2380.
  8. ^ Demerliac (2003), p. 264, n°2026.
  9. ^ "No. 16392". The London Gazette. 31 July 1810. p. 1138.
  10. ^ Demerliac (2003), p. 275, n°2153.
  11. ^ "No. 16479". The London Gazette. 23 April 1811. p. 762.
  12. ^ Gwyn (2003), p. 175, fn. 124.
  13. ^ "No. 16342". The London Gazette. 13 February 1810. pp. 234–235.
  14. ^ Naval Chronicle, Vol. 23, p.337.
  15. ^ Crowhurst (1989), p. 69.
  16. ^ "Advertisements & Notices". Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser (Exeter, England), 1 March 1810; Issue 2317.

References[edit]

  • Crowhurst, Patrick (1989). The French War on Trade: Privateering 1793–1815. Scholar Press. ISBN 0-85967-804-0.
  • Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.
  • Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 à 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381247. OCLC 492783890.
  • Demerliac, Alain (2003). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 à 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782903179304. OCLC 492784876.
  • Gwyn, Julian (2003). Frigates and foremasts:the North American Squadron in Nova Scotia waters, 1745–1815. UBC Press. ISBN 9780774809115.
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