POURSUIVANTE frigate 1798

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Built as a wooden-hulled 5th Rate frigate at the Dunkirk shipyard after a design by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait, built for the French Navy.
20 February 1794 laid down
23 May 1796 launched as the POURSUIVANTE (chaser) one of the Romaine class.
Displacement 700 tonnes, dim, 45.5 x 11.8 x 5m (draught)
Armament: 40 guns, 24 - 24pdrs, 16 – 8 pdrs,
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May 1798 commissioned with homeport Bordeaux.

POURSUIVANTE ("chaser") was a Romaine-class frigate of the French Navy.
Career
In June 1800, POURSUIVANTE took part in the battle of Dunkirk under commander Oreille. In 1802, she departed Vlissingen (Flushing)U to ferry troops to Saint-Domingue, under capitaine de vaisseau Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez. She arrived as the Haitian Revolution raged. The ships DUGUAY-TROUIN, ANNIBAL, and SWIFTSURE, as well as frigate PRECIEUSE, INFATIGABLE were also in Haiti. General Pamphile Lacroix ordered the Blacks on the island to be drowned, and the ships started throwing the Blacks on the island overboard. Only Willaumez refused the order, arguing that “sailors of the French Navy were no executioners”.
On 18 May 1803, after the Treaty of Amiens was canceled and war broke out between France and Great Britain. En route for Saint-Domingue with the 16-gun corvette MIGNONNE, she encounteERCULE and in the action of 28 June 1803, managed to rake her, disturbing her operations enough to be able to reach harbour. MIGNONNE was captured by HMS GOLIATH .
In October, POURSUIVANTE refitted in Baltimore, from where she departed in March 1804. On 14 August 1804, POURSUIVANTE JUNO was captured in a notable single-ship action off the American coast and later burnt her. During her journey back to France, POURSUIVANTE met and evaded another British ship. Willaumez was promoted to vice-admiral on his return.
Stricken in September 1805, and she was used as a breakwater thereafter.

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Poursuivante_(1796)
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