French brig Suffisante (1793)
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| Name: | Suffisante (or sometimes Suffisant |
| Namesake: | "Suffisant" is the male form and "suffisante" the female for "satisfying", or "vainglorious" |
| Builder: | Louis Deros, Le Havre Plans by Forfait |
| Laid down: | March 1793 |
| Launched: | 2 September 1793 |
| Captured: | 25 August 1795 |
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| Name: | HMS Suffisante |
| Acquired: | 25 August 1795 by capture |
| Fate: | Wrecked 25 December 1803 |
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| Class and type: | Amarante-class |
| Displacement: | 288 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen: | 286 4⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 28 ft 3 1⁄4 in (8.617 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 7 3⁄4 in (3.854 m) |
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The French brig Suffisante was launched in 1793 for the French Navy. In 1795 the Royal Navy captured her and took her into service under her existing name. HMS Suffisante captured seven privateers during her career, as well as recapturing some British merchantmen and capturing a number of prizes, some of them valuable. She was lost in December 1803 when she grounded in poor weather in Cork harbour.
Suffisante was built with copper sheathing, including the pegs. By 30 November 1793 Suffisante was under the command of enseigne de vaisseau non entretenu Berrenger and stationed at Le Havre. From there she cruised to protect the fishermen working between Dieppe and Cap d'Antifer. Between 9 February 1794 and 3 August now sous-lieutenant de vaisseau Berrenger sailed Sufffisante on cruises, escorted convoys between Dieppe and Cancale, sailed into the Atlantic, returning to Rochefort, and then sailed from Rochefort to Brest.
Between 27 April 1795 and her capture, Suffisante was stationed at Flessingue and under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Nosten.
On 25 August 1795 the squadron under Admiral Adam Duncan captured two French Navy brigs off the Texel. One was Suffisante, of fourteen 8 and 6-pounder guns, and the other was Victorieuse, of fourteen 12-pounder guns. They were heading into the North Sea on a cruise.
French records state that Suffisante's actual captors were the 74-gun third-rate Mars, the frigate Venus, and the lugger Speedy. The French reports further state that Suffisante exchanged fire with the 20-gun lugger Speedy, but the arrival on the scene of Mars and Venus rendered further resistance futile.
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