HMS Marie Antoinette (1793)
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 France
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| Name: | Marie Antoinette |
| Namesake: | Marie Antoinette, Queen of France |
| Fate: | Requisitioned 1793 at Saint-Domingue |
 France
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| Name: | Convention Nationale |
| Acquired: | By requisition 1793 |
| Captured: | By a squadron under Commodore John Ford at Môle-Saint-Nicolas in September 1793 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Marie Antoinette |
| Fate: | Crew mutinied and took her to a French port in the West Indies on 27 December 1797 |
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| Class and type: | 10-gun schooner |
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| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Two-masted schooner |
| Complement: | 50 |
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HMS Marie Antoinette was a 10-gun two-masted sloop. She was built in France and was originally called Marie Antoinette. During the French Revolution, she was rerequisitoned and renamed Convention Nationale. A British squadron under Commodore Ford captured her in 1793. The Royal Navy took her into service under her original name, Marie Antoinette. She took part in operations around Saint-Domingue until her crew mutinied in 1797 and carried her into a French port. Her subsequent fate is unknown.
Marie Antoinette was the merchant schooner Marie Antoinette. In 1793, she was requisitioned at Saint-Domingue and commissioned in the French Navy as the 20-gun corvette, Convention Nationale.
In September 1793, at the request of French Royalists, Commodore Ford's squadron attacked Saint-Domingue and Jérémie in the Caribbean. On 23 September 1793, the British captured four merchant vessels at L'Islet, and on 29 September, seven at Flamande Bay. At Môle-Saint-Nicolas, on 23 September, HMS Europa, HMS Goelan, and HMS Flying Fish had captured the schooner Convention Nationale, which was under the command of Mons. Anquetin. She was registered on 12 May 1794.
Ford gave command of the renamed Marie Antoinette to Lieutenant John Perkins "an Officer of Zeal, Vigilance and Activity." In 1794 Marie Antoinette made up part of the squadron commanded by the newly promoted Rear-Admiral John Ford and accompanying Brigadier-General John Whyte that briefly captured Port-au-Prince. Records indicate that Marie Antoinette did not play any significant role in the siege. At the time some forty-five vessels lay in harbour and these were all made prizes.
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