French corvette Robuste (1793)
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| Name: | Robuste |
| Owner: | Bouteiller (Père et fils) |
| Builder: | Nantes |
| Launched: | 1789 |
| Fate: | Sold 1793 |
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| Name: | Robuste |
| Owner: | French Navy |
| Acquired: | December 1793 |
| Commissioned: | Rochefort, Charente-Maritime |
| Captured: | 1796 |
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| Name: | HMS Scourge |
| Acquired: | 1796 by capture |
| Fate: | Sold 1802 |
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| Type: | Sloop |
| Displacement: | 542 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen: | 372 34⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 28 ft 11 5⁄8 in (8.8 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 10 1⁄2 in (3.9 m) |
| Sail plan: | Sloop |
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The French corvette Robuste was a vessel built at Nantes as a slaver that made her first and only slave-trading voyage in 1789-90. The French navy purchased her in December 1793 and she served as a 22-gun corvette in the Channel. The British captured her in 1796 and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS Scourge. She captured a number of French privateers, primarily in the West Indies, before the navy sold her in 1802.
Captain J.B. Magré sailed Robuste from Nantes on 10 May 1789, bound for West Africa. She arrived at Îles de Los on 6 October, where she gathered her slaves. She left on 21 July and sailed from the West Indies. She arrived at Les Cayes on 6 September, and sold her slaves there. She had embarked 339 slaves and disembarked 305, for a loss rate of 10%. She sailed from Les Cayes on 4 March 1790, and arrived home on 23 April.
On 30 May 1795 Robuste was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Gautreau. She was operating between Lorient and Mindin. She had been escorting convoys between Verdon and the mouth of the Loire, and then returning to Lorient. Then between 11 May 1795 and 7 July, while under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Arnous, she was escorting a convoy from Lorient to the Raz de Sein.
On 16 April 1796, while in the Bay of Audierne, she encountered HMS Pomone.Pomone captured Robuste, of 22 guns and 145 men, off Penmarch Point.Robuste was sailing from Brest to L'Orient. The Royal Navy took her into service as Scourge. Prize money for Robuste was paid in December 1796.
The Royal Navy commissioned Scourge in August 1796 under Commander Henry Richard Glynn.
On 12 February 1797 Phoenix was in company with Triton and Scourge off the Irish coast. Together they captured the French privateer Difficile. She was armed with 18 guns and had a crew of 206 men. She was three days out of Brest; Phoenix put a prize crew aboard and sent her into Portsmouth. The same three ships also captured Jeune Emilie and Recovery, though they shared the capture of Recovery with HMS Unite, and HMS Stag.
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