French corvette Jalouse (1794)
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| Name: | Jalouse |
| Namesake: | French, meaning jealous, suspicious, or wary |
| Builder: | Pierre, Jacques, and Nicholas Fortier, Honfleur |
| Laid down: | July 1793 |
| Launched: | 4 February 1794 |
| Captured: | 13 May 1797 |
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| Name: | HMS Jalouse |
| Acquired: | 13 May 1797 by capture |
| Fate: | Broken up, March 1807 |
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| Class and type: | Belliquesse-class 18-gun brig-corvette |
| Displacement: | 475 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen: | 348 47⁄94 (bm), or 220-280 (French; "of load") |
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| Beam: | 278 ft 9 in (85.0 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 11 1⁄2 in (3.9 m) |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
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Jalouse was an 18-gun Belliqueuse-class brig-corvette of the French Navy, built to a design by Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, and launched in 1794 at Honfleur. The Royal Navy captured her in May 1797 and took her into service under her existing name. In British service she served primarily on the North Sea station where she captured three small French privateers, and many Dutch merchant vessels. She also participated with other British warships in two or three major cutting-out expeditions. She was broken up in 1807.
Between 24 March 1794 and 25 August, Jalouse was at Le Havre and Ostend, and under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Astague.
On 5 October 1795 lieutenant de vaiseau Pierre-Édouard Plucket took command of Jalouse. At the time she was apparently armed with 12 guns, and had a crew of 150 men.
Under his command, Jalouse in a 15-day cruise in 1795 captured seven prizes and 52 men.
From 7 March 1797 until her capture, French official records confirm that Jalouse was under Plucket's command, and based at Flessingue. From there she cruised the North Sea, and arrived at Bergen. Sailing from Bergen, she captured three prizes, including a whaler of eight guns and 42 men. He also burnt three vessels under the guns of a fort at Berwick.
On 27 March, or 7 April (records differ),Jalouse encountered the sloop Tisiphone in the North Sea. An inconclusive 11-hour engagement ensued.
Afterwards Plucket reported that he had engaged a 38-gun frigate; according to a French account, Captain James Wallis of Tisiphone reported that he had engaged a 28-gun frigate. Supposedly, when Plucket's English prisoners from prizes returned to Britain and reported that Jalouse was a 12-gun brig, Wallis was court-martialed and reduced in rank. There seems to be only passing mention of the engagement in one English-language source that makes no mention of a court martial and that identifies Tisiphone's opponent as the privateer Naïade.
After the engagement with Tisiphone, Jalouse returned to Bergen. There she replenished her store of munitions, recruited 20 Dutch sailors to rebuild his crew, and then set out for Flessingue. On the way she captured two more British vessels.
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