French brig Amarante (1793)
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| Name: | Amarante |
| Namesake: | Amaranth |
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| Laid down: | May 1793 |
| Launched: | 23 August 1793 |
| Captured: | December 1796 |
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| Name: | HMS Amaranthe |
| Acquired: | December 1796 by capture |
| Fate: | Wrecked October 1799 |
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| Displacement: | 288 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen: | 290 30⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 28 ft 2 1⁄2 in (8.598 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 2 3⁄4 in (4.032 m) |
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The French brig Amarante (equally Amaranthe), was launched in 1793 at Honfleur for the French Navy. The British Royal Navy captured her at the end of 1796 and took her into service as HMS Amaranthe. She captured one French vessel in a single-ship action before she was wrecked near Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1799.
Amarante was the name ship of a two-vessel class of 12-gun brigs built to a design by Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait. She was also the first vessel that Joseph-Augustin Normand built at Honfleur for the French Navy.
Between February 1794 and December, she was under the command of enseigne de vaisseau Jacques-Philippe Delamare and escorted convoys from to Le Havre to Brest. Between February 1795 and May, she escorted convoys between Saint-Malo and Dieppe, and performed fisheries protection duties for the Dieppoise fishermen. She then protected the herring fisheries in the Channel.
Delamare was suspended in 1798 as a terrorist by order of the representative of the people Boissier. He was reinstated some months later and sent to Brest. A decree of the Public Safety Committee, dated 22 September, confirmed him in command of Amarante.
On 1 March 1797 Amarante was at La Hogue roads undergoing repairs.
HMS Diamond captured Amarante off Alderney on 31 December 1796. The letter in the London Gazette describes her as a brig of twelve 6-pounder guns, and nine men. She was sailing from Le Havre to Brest. She had no casualties.
Amarante arrived at Portsmouth on 2 January 1797. In August 1797 the Royal Navy commissioned her as Amaranthe under Commander Francis Vesey, and she then underwent fitting until February 1798.
Vesey sailed her for Jamaica in July 1798. However, on 29 August, she and Endymion recaptured the British East India Company "extra ship" Britannia, Stewart, master.Britannia had been sailing from Bengal to London when the French privateer Huron captured her.
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