French brick-aviso Goéland (1787)
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 France
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| Name: | Goéland |
| Namesake: | Goéland, the Breton word for seagull |
| Builder: | Bayonne |
| Launched: | 4 May 1787 |
| Fate: | Captured 1793 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Goelan |
| Acquired: | 1793 by capture |
| Fate: | Sold 1794 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Brothers |
| Owner: | Various |
| Acquired: | 1794 by purchase |
| Fate: | Listed until at least 1815, but not after 1816 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Goéland-class brick-aviso |
| Tons burthen: | 248 (bm) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | brig |
| Complement: | c.65 (French service) |
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Goéland was the name ship of a two-vessel class of "brick-avisos" (advice brigs), built to a design by Raymond-Antoine Haran and launched in 1787. She served the French Navy for several years carrying dispatches until in 1793 HMS Penelope and HMS Proserpine captured her off Jérémie. The Royal Navy took her into service briefly as Goelan and sold her in 1794. As the merchant brig Brothers she appears to have sailed as a whaling ship in the South Seas Whale Fisheries until 1808 or so, and then traded between London and the Brazils. She is no longer listed after 1815.
Lieutenant de vaisseau Le Tourneur carried dispatches from Brest to Newfoundland and St Pierre (probably Saint Pierre and Miquelon) on a voyage that lasted from 12 June 1790 until 3 November. The renowned French naval officer, Jean-Marthe-Adrien l'Hermite served on her as a junior officer on one of these voyages when she escorted the fishing fleet from Granville to Newfoundland.
On 12 September 1791 Goéland was at Brest, under the command of sous-lieutenant de vaisseau Le Dall de Kerangalet.
In April 1793 Goéland was sailing from Cap-Français to Jérémie while under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Leissègues de Pennenyum. Early on the 16th Leissègues was seeking to enter the bay while searching for a convoy he was to escort when he observed an enemy frigate at the entrance. The British frigate immediately set out to drive Goéland on shore. At 7a.m. she received her first shots and by 9.a.m. the British frigate was no more than pistol-shot away. Goéland fired back, but resistance was futile. Leissègues was forced to strike to the frigate Penelope.Proserpine shared with Penelope in the prize money, suggesting that she was in company with Penelope, or in sight.
The British took Goéland into service as Goelan. Commander Thomas Wolley was appointed Goelan's captain at Jamaica.
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