Numerous vessels have been named Vautour (French for "
vulture"):
Privateers
Vautour was a privateer that
HMS Dryad captured after a six-hour chase. Vautour was armed with seven 4-pounder guns and two 12-pounder
carronades. She was of 130
tons burthen (bm), with a crew of 78 men. She had sailed from Morlaiz on 13 October 1796 and not taken anything.[1]
Vautour (1797 ship) was a privateer launched in 1797 at Nantes that the British
Royal Navy captured in 1800. She later became the
whalerVulture that a Spanish privateer captured in 1809.
Vautour, was a privateer from Bordeaux commissioned in July 1797, with 64 men and 10 guns under a Captain Bolle.
HMS Matilda captured Vautour on 29 March 1798.[2][3]
Vautour, was a privateer cutter from an unknown harbour, commissioned in early 1797, that
HMS Impetueux captured on 8 March 1797.[4]
Vautour was a Spanish
felucca privateer of one 9-pounder gun and 54 men that
HMS Fortunee captured off Altavella (the eastern point of the island of Santo Domingo) on 10 August 1804.[5]
Two privateers named Vautour appear in a list of 78
Corsairs commissioned in
Boulogne during the period 1793-1814, with Captains Durand and Captain Orielle.[6]
Naval vessels
HMS Vautour (1810) an 18-gun brig-sloop, captured 1809, commissioned in the Royal Navy 1810, and sunk 1813
Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 A 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre.
ISBN2-906381-24-1.
Norman, Charles Boswell (1887). The Corsairs of France. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.
ISBN1-86176-246-1.
List of ships with the same or similar names
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
Numerous vessels have been named Vautour (French for "
vulture"):
Privateers
Vautour was a privateer that
HMS Dryad captured after a six-hour chase. Vautour was armed with seven 4-pounder guns and two 12-pounder
carronades. She was of 130
tons burthen (bm), with a crew of 78 men. She had sailed from Morlaiz on 13 October 1796 and not taken anything.[1]
Vautour (1797 ship) was a privateer launched in 1797 at Nantes that the British
Royal Navy captured in 1800. She later became the
whalerVulture that a Spanish privateer captured in 1809.
Vautour, was a privateer from Bordeaux commissioned in July 1797, with 64 men and 10 guns under a Captain Bolle.
HMS Matilda captured Vautour on 29 March 1798.[2][3]
Vautour, was a privateer cutter from an unknown harbour, commissioned in early 1797, that
HMS Impetueux captured on 8 March 1797.[4]
Vautour was a Spanish
felucca privateer of one 9-pounder gun and 54 men that
HMS Fortunee captured off Altavella (the eastern point of the island of Santo Domingo) on 10 August 1804.[5]
Two privateers named Vautour appear in a list of 78
Corsairs commissioned in
Boulogne during the period 1793-1814, with Captains Durand and Captain Orielle.[6]
Naval vessels
HMS Vautour (1810) an 18-gun brig-sloop, captured 1809, commissioned in the Royal Navy 1810, and sunk 1813
Demerliac, Alain (1999). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 A 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre.
ISBN2-906381-24-1.
Norman, Charles Boswell (1887). The Corsairs of France. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.
ISBN1-86176-246-1.
List of ships with the same or similar names
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.