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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Sans Culotte.
Petite Sans Culotte
History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NamePetite Sans Culotte
AcquiredJuly 1793
CapturedSeptember 1793
History
Royal Navy EnsignUK
NamePetite Victoire
Acquiredby capture August 1793
FateLost March 1794
General characteristics
Armament2 x 6-pounder guns

Petite Sans Culotte was a French Navy tartane that the French Navy acquired at Toulon in July 1793, and armed with two 6-pounder guns.[1] The British captured her in August at the Siege of Toulon. She was commissioned on 5 September into the British Royal Navy under the command of Lieutenant James Morgan, of HMS Victory. Morgan had been a midshipman on Victory and on his promotion to 8th Lieutenant of Victory, was immediately transferred to Petite Sans Culotte. He brought with him as crew 10 men from Victory. Consequently, the British renamed her Petite Victoire.[1]

Petite Victoire served against the batteries surrounding the city and performed useful services during the evacuation of Toulon on 18 December.[2] She apparently was not abandoned to be captured.[1]

Fate

She was lost off Cap Corse.[1] In two letters, Lord Nelson mentions that in March 1794 that Petite Victoire "having started a plank was obliged to run on shore, and is hauled up", and "Petite Victoire – hauled on shore at Erbalonga". Erbalunga is a village on Cape Corse, some five miles north of Bastia.

Confusion as to origins and naming

Petite Sans Cullote was amongst the most minor of vessels, acquired and lost during a turbulent period period; it is no surprise that her history is obscure. One source suggests that Petite Victoire was the former Brave Sans Cullote.[3] However, Demerliac lists Petite Victoire as a separate ship, a 2-gun brig armed in Toulon in July 1793 (nothing else known, origin unknown, captured by the British and lost off Cape Corse).[4]

Citations and references

Citations
  1. ^ a b c d Naval Chronicle, (1799) Vol. 2, pp.195-6.
  2. ^ United Service Magazine (February 1840), Part. 1, p.173.
  3. ^ Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.296.
  4. ^ Demerliac (2004).
References
  • Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 A 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-24-1.
  • Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
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