Gloire (1799 ship)
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 France
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| Name: | Gloire |
| Builder: | Bayonne |
| Launched: | 1799 |
| Captured: | March 1801 |
 England
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| Name: | HMS Trincomalee |
| Namesake: | Trincomalee |
| Acquired: | 1801 by purchase post-capture |
| Fate: | Sold August 1804 |
 UK
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| Name: | Trincomalee? |
| Acquired: | 1802 by purchase |
| Captured: | late 1803 |
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France
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| Name: | Émilien |
| Acquired: | Late 1803 by capture |
| Captured: | September 1807 |
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England
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| Name: | HMS Emilien |
| Acquired: | 1807 by capture |
| Fate: | Sold 1808 |
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| Length: | 80 ft 2 in (24.4 m) (overall); c. |
| Sail plan: | Brig |
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Gloire was a ship launched at Bayonne in 1799 as an armed merchantman. She became a privateer in the Indian Ocean that the British captured in 1801 in a notable single-ship action and named HMS Trincomalee, but then sold in 1803. The French recaptured her in 1803 and recommissioned her as the privateer Émilien, but the British recaptured her in 1807 and recommissioned her as HMS Emilien, before selling her in 1808.
Was a three-masted corvette-like ship built in Bayonne and commissioned in Bordeaux in 1799 under Captain Emit as an armed merchantman. After her arrival at Île de France (Mauritius) in May she was recommissioned as a privateer under Captain Étienne Bourgoin.
Gloire sailed from Île de France on the evening of 25 August 1800, in company with the privateer Adèle.
On 23 March 1801 HMS Albatross, Captain William Waller captured Gloire, Étienne Bourgoin, master, at 15°17′N 87°0′E / 15.283°N 87.000°E. Albatross had chased Gloire and had finally caught up with her around noon. After a close and severe action that lasted about 20 minutes Bourgoin struck. Gloire had lost five men killed and 12 wounded, Bourgoin and some of his officers being among the wounded; Albatross had no casualties.
At the time of her capture Gloire was armed with 10 guns, though she was pierced for 18, and had a crew of 111 men. She had left Mauritius with 183 men, but had taken six prizes requiring prize crews; she had also sunk several other prizes that were not worth putting a prize crew aboard.
After his capture Bourgoin stated that Gloire could have escaped, but that his men had insisted on fighting. He also reported that some time earlier he had encountered the British East India Company's 24-gun cruizer Mornington. She had chased Gloire for some three days, and Bourgoin praised Lieutenant Henry Frost, Mornington's captain, for his seamanship.
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