French ship Brutus

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Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name Brutus in honour of several Roman politicians named Brutus:

• Diadème (1756–1797), the lead ship of the Diadème class ship of the line, was renamed Brutus on 29 September 1792
• Brutus (1780–1795); naval service 1793-1795, first as an 18-gun corvette and then as a 10-gun brig
• Brutus (1798–1803), a Téméraire class ship of the line

Note: The Brutus Français, (ex-Pulaski, ex-Pichegru, and frequently referred to in news reports as Brutus), was a French 20-gun privateer operating highly successfully out of Charleston, South Carolina in 1795, in the Caribbean. This was not Brutus (1780-1795) above.^[1]

References

1. Jackson, Melvin H. (1969) Privateers in Charleston 1793-1796: An Account of a French Palatinate in South Carolina. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology No. 1. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press).