French brig Brave (1793)
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| Name: | Cannoniere No. 1 |
| Builder: | Le Havre, to a design by Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait |
| Laid down: | January 1793 |
| Launched: | 26 April 1793 |
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| Name: | HMS Arrogante |
| Acquired: | by capture |
| Renamed: | HMS Insolent |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Basque Roads 1809" |
| Fate: | Sold 1816 |
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| Displacement: | 288 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen: | 258 14⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 25 ft 11 3⁄8 in (7.909 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft 2 in (3.40 m) |
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Brave, launched at Le Havre in 1793, was the name vessel of a two-vessel class of brig-rigged canonnières, i.e., gun-brigs. The French Navy renamed her Arrogante in May 1795. The Royal Navy captured her on 23 or 24 April 1798. She was taken into the Royal Navy under her existing name, but renamed HMS Insolent some four months later. She was sold in June 1818.
As the corvette-canonnière Brave, she was stationed at the Bay of Audierne. Between 4 February 1793 and 7 August she was under the command of sous-lieutenant de vaisseau (later lieutenant de vaisseau) Massard and escorted convoys between Le Havre and Brest. From 27 August to 25 October she was under the command of enseigne de vaisseau non entretenu Bourhis.
Between 11 April 1794 and 28 July she was stationed first at Verdon and then at the Gironde estuary. There she carried dispatches from Brest to Verdon.
Still under Bourhis's command, between 13 May 1795 to 8 July, Brave sailed from Brest à Audierne, where she then was stationed in the bay, before returning to Brest. Next she was at Camaret roads, and then escorted a transport from le Conquet to Brest.
In May 1795 the French Navy renamed Brave to Arrogante, and changed her classification from corvette-canonnière to canonnière.
On 21 April 1796 Arrogante was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Le Bastard when she engaged a British squadron in the Audierne roads. On 25 July 1797 she was at Brest and still under Le Bastard's command.
Almost exactly two years later, on 23 April 1798 Arrogante was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Lambour and escorting a convoy between Audierne and Brest. French records report that while she was in the Iroise Sea she encountered two English frigates, HMS Jason and HMS Naiad.
British records report that Naiad, Mars and Ramillies were in sight when Jason captured Arrogante.Arrogante was armed with six long 24-pounder guns and had a crew of 92 men.
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