HMS Entreprenante (1799)
The Royal Navy armed cutter Entreprenante shadowing the remnants of the Franco-Spanish fleet as it runs into Cadiz after the disastrous defeat at Trafalgar, by Thomas Buttersworth
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| Name: | Entreprenante |
| In service: | 1797 |
| Fate: | Captured by the British in 1798 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Entreprenante |
| Acquired: | by capture 1798 |
| In service: | Purchased November 1798 and registered 1 June 1799 |
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| Fate: | Broken up in June 1812 |
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| Class and type: | 10-gun cutter |
| Tons burthen: | 126 59⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 67 ft (20 m) (overall), 51 ft 6 in (15.70 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 21 1⁄2 ft (6.6 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.7 m) (unladen), 11 ft (3.4 m) (laden) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Complement: | 40 |
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HMS Entreprenante (also Entreprenant), was a 10-gun cutter that the Royal Navy captured from the French in 1798. The British commissioned her in 1799 and she served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, participating in the Battle of Trafalgar. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She took part in several small engagements, capturing Spanish and French ships before she was sold in 1812 for breaking up.
French sources indicate that she may have been built in France in 1797. Furthermore, she may have been a privateer from Socoa, or possibly nearby Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and under the command of Ensign Dominique Délouart, of Bayonne.
Entreprenante was commissioned in February 1799 under Lieutenant Charles Claridge. In April she was under the command of Lieutenant William Swiney.
On 3 March 1800, Entreprenante, Phaeton and Minotaur shared in the capture of the Madona del Grazie, which they sent into Leghorn. On 29 March, Entreprenante captured a Genoese vessel from Capraia bound for Genoa with a cargo of corn.Entreprenante was among the handful of vessels that shared by agreement with Phaeton in the proceeds of the capture on 14 April by Phaeton and Peterel of the St. Rosalia. Next, Entreprenante was among the vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture off Genoa, on 28 April, of the Proteus.
On 21 January 1801, Entreprenante brought dispatches to Jaffa.
Then on 2 March she protected the left flank during the landing of troops in Aboukir Bay. The schooner Malta and the gun-vessel Negresse assisted her.Cruelle protected the left flank, together with the cutter Janissary and the gun-vessel Dangereuse. In 1850, the Admiralty authorized the issue of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt" to any surviving members of her crew that came forward to claim it.
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