VENGEUR 1756

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VENGEUR 1756

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Sep 19, 2017 8:42 pm

This stamp shows the VENGEUR when she arrived with the HÉROS http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =2&t=15955 in 1783 in Ile de France.
Built as a wooden hulled cargo vessel by Caudan, Lorient for the French East India Company.
May 1756 laid down,
25 October 1756 launched as the VENGEUR.
Tonnage 1,250 ton burthen, dim. 52.61 length of gundeck, 48.72 length of keel, 13,48 beam, 6.84 depth in hold.
As warship she carried an armament of, lower deck 24 – 24pdr long guns, upper deck 28 – 12 pdr. long guns. Quarterdeck 6 – 6 pdr long guns and forecastle 2 – 6 pdr. long guns.
Crew 396 as warship.
25 October 1756 completed and delivered to owners.

1765 Sold to the French Navy and refitted in Brest as a third rate 64-gun ship-of-the-line warship.
The VENGEUR was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy designed by Antoine Groignard. She saw action with Bailli de Suffren during the American War of Independence.
Career
VENGEUR was originally built as an East Indiaman for the French East India Company. Her plans, however, followed military specification, as she was supposed to be able to integrate a naval squadron if necessary. She cruised as a merchantman from 1757 to 1765, when she was sold to the Navy. After a refit in Brest, she was brought into service under Captain Jean Christy de La Pallière.
In October 1778, along with the frigate BELLE POULE, she captured the privateer ST PETERS. She took part in the Action of 18 December 1779, when she, along with ANNIBAL and RÉFLÉCHI, saved a convoy from the British off Fort Royal.
She took part in the Battle of Martinique (1780)
Incorporated into Suffren's squadron, she was present at the Battle of Porto Praya, although she did not take part in the action. She was similarly present at the Battle of Negapatam without fighting, while led Suffren to report her captain, Comte de Forbin.
February 1784 decommissioned and struck from the navy list in April 1784.
VENGEUR was sold to commerce in April 1784, and wrecked off La Réunion in March 1785.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_sh ... EUR_(1765) https://threedecks.org/index.php?displa ... p&id=15423
Mauritius 1970 2R50 sg423, scott?
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