USS Scourge (1804)
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 France
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| Name: | Quatre frères |
| Owner: | Jouguet |
| Builder: | Bordeaux |
| Commissioned: | 1796 |
| Captured: | March 1797 |
 UK
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| Name: | HMS Temeraire |
| Acquired: | April 1797 by capture |
| Renamed: | HMS Transfer |
| Fate: | Sold 1802 |
 Ottoman Tripolitania
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| Acquired: | 1802 by purchase at Malta |
| Captured: | 21 March 1804 |
 United States
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| Name: | USS Scourge |
| Namesake: | Scourge |
| Cost: | Spanish $5,000 purchased |
| Acquired: | 21 March 1804 by capture |
| Out of service: | 1812 |
| Fate: | Sold 1813 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen: | 150 (French; "of load"); 181 13⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 80 feet 0 inches (24.4 m) (overall); 63 feet 0 inches (19.2 m) (keel) |
| Beam: | 23 feet 3 inches (7.1 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 14 feet 6 inches (4.4 m) |
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Quatre frères was a French privateer commissioned in 1796. The British Royal Navy captured her in April 1797 and took her into service as HMS Transfer. The Royal Navy sold her at Malta in 1802 to Ottoman Tripolitania. The U.S. Navy captured her in 1804 and took her into service as USS Scourge. She was sold in 1813.
Quatre frères was commissioned in 1796 in Bordeaux under Martial Dupeyrat. Under his command she captured two prizes: Résolution and Frascara, that she sent into Rochfort. Résolution, of Lisbon and of 500 tons (French, "of load"), Dos Santos (or Roze de Sautort), master, was a Portuguese vessel carrying wheat and almonds from the Barbary Coast.Frascara was a Danish vessel carrying oranges and lemons.
The 74-gun HMS Irresistible captured Quatre frères in March 1797 in the Mediterranean.
The Royal Navy registered Transfer on 30 June 1797, and commissioned her in October under Commander George Bowen.Transfer, brig of 14 guns, is listed as being in Earl St Vincent's fleet in 1798. Commander George Mundy (or Munday), was promoted to command of Transfer on 24 December 1798. She was listed in Lord Viscount Keith's fleet in 1799.
On 11 February 1799, Transfer, under the command of Lieutenant George Miller (acting), captured the French privateer Escamoteur off Ayamonte. Escamoteur was armed with three 6-pounder guns and had a crew of 34 men.
On 4 April Transfer was under Mundy's command when she and the 74-gun Majestic destroyed a French privateer of 14 guns and of unknown name. The two British ships were patrolling between Malaga and Cape de Gatt when they encountered the privateer, which they chased into a small bay where their quarry took refuge under the three guns of a circular fortress. Head money was paid in 1828, almost 30 years later.
Transfer was present at the surrender of the French garrison at Civitavecchia on 21 September. She shared the prize money for the capture of the town and fortress with Culloden, Mutine, Minotaur, and the bomb vessel Perseus. The British also captured the French polacca Il Reconniscento.
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