French ship Torride
Two vessels named Torride have served the French Navy between 1786 and 1815:
- Torride was the merchant tartane Union that the French Navy acquired in 1794 and renamed Torride in May 1795. She was a chaloupe-canonnière (gun-shallop),[1] that the French Navy used as an aviso. The Navy may have sold her in 1797 to the Bey of Tunis.[2]
- Torride was the cutter Sally of unknown origin that the French Navy converted into a gun-vessel. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1798 at Abu Qir and she served as HMS Torride at the Siege of Acre. She is last listed in 1802.
Citations[edit]
- ^ Neptunia, Vol. 85-92, Amis de musées de la marine, 1967 – ; p. xxv.
- ^ Winfield & Roberts (2015), pp. 277–8.
References[edit]
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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