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L'Étoile

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Étoile No. 2
Nominal Guns16ref:692
NationalityEmpire Français
OperatorPrivate Owners
Acquired1807ref:692
Home PortBoulogne-sur-Mer - Picardy ref:692
ShipyardBoulogne-sur-Mer - Picardy BWAS-1793
CategoryPrivateerref:692
Ship TypeLuggerBG
Captured5.11.1809BWAS-1793

Armament


1807Broadside Weight Unknownref:692
Gun Deck16 French Canons de Fonte

5.11.1809Broadside Weight UnknownBWAS-1793
Gun Deck14 French Canons de Fonte

Owners


DatesOwnerSource
1807
Delporte et FrèresFrench
Ship Owner
Service 1793-1812
Principal Managing Owner
ref:692

Crew Complement


Date# of MenNotesSource
18.11.180948 BG

2 Ship Commanders


DatesRankNameSource
1807Capitaine de Corsaire , Private Owners
Pierre Augustin DelpierreFrench
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Service 1807-1813
ref:692
1809 - 5.11.1809Capitaine de Corsaire , Private Owners
Pierre Augustin DelpierreFrench
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Service 1807-1813
ADM 103/379
ADM 103

3 Commissioned Officers


DatesRankNameSource
1809 - 5.11.1809Lieutenant de Corsaire , Private Owners
Philippe DelétreFrench
Privateer
Service 1809
ADM 103/379
ADM 103
1809 - 5.11.1809Lieutenant de Corsaire , Private Owners
Jean Aimable AnquetilFrench
Privateer
Service 1809
ADM 103/379
ADM 103
1809 - 5.11.1809Lieutenant de Corsaire , Private Owners
François FerrierFrench
Privateer
Service 1809
ADM 103/379
ADM 103

Service History


DateEventSource
1807

Homeport Boulogne .

Took the ship "Argus" .

ref:692
3.11.1809

Departure from La Hougue

BG
5.11.1809Taken by
Euryalus (36) 1803-1860
British 36 Gun
5th Rate Frigate
1859 Renamed "Africa"
off Cherbourg
ADM 103


Notes on Ship


CaptureBG

Admiralty-Office, November 18, 1809.

Admiral Sir Roger Curtis, Commander in Chief at Portsmouth, has transmitted to John Wilson Croker, Esq;

A letter from the Honourable Captain Dundas, of the Euryalus, to Captain Sir Richard King, of the Achille, stating the capture, by the former ship, off Cherbourg, of the French Privateer Lugger L'Etoile, of 14 guns and 48 men, out from the Hogue 2 days, without making any capture.


Date of captureBG

Just the date of the Admiralty Office , the capture maybe before



 

Previous comments on this page

Posted by Cy on Monday 20th of March 2023 18:57

HCA 32/1019/1720 as indexed online refers to the capture vessel as L'Etoile (master Del Pierre). I'm afraid I can not find any reference to the Etoile (or Etoile No. 2) in ADM 103 at all.
If you have copies of the originals, which is what I assume from the information you have given, I would be delighted to see them.


Posted by A. Morddel on Monday 20th of March 2023 18:23

The Etoile no. 2 was built in Boulogne in 1809. (HCA 32/1019) Captain Pierre Delpierre, of Boulogne. Lieutenants 1) Philippe Deletre, 2) Francois Terrier, 3) Jean Aimable Anquetil
Source: ADM 103/379.


Posted by Cy on Monday 20th of March 2023 17:49

The British may have refered to her as Etoile no. 2, but this is a French vessel and the name is correct.


Posted by A. Morddel on Monday 20th of March 2023 15:31

I think the correct name for this vessel is "Etoile no. 2". The prize case file is in TNA, (HCA 32/1019) and includes the French crew list, which shows that there were a number of American POWs in France on the crew.

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