Deux Freres (1798 ship)

Deux Frères was a tartane that the French Navy had requisitioned in March 1798 at Marseille and commissioned as a transport.^[1] A British division under the command of Commodore Sir Sidney Smith in Tigre captured her on 18 March 1799 at the siege of Acre in 1799. She was one of a flotilla of seven vessels and Smith took all into the Royal Navy.^[2] At the time of her capture Deux Frères was armed with four guns and had a crew of 23 men. One of the seven captured vessels was lost in a gale at the siege; the lost vessel was almost certainly Deux Freres as the other six have a readily identifiable subsequent history.

Citations and references

Citations

1. Winfield and Roberts (2015 forthcoming}, Chap. 10.
2. The London Gazette: no. 15149. pp. 609–610. 18 June 1799.

References

• Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015 Forthcoming) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042