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Career (United Kingdom)
Name:
HMS BouncerOrdered:
9 January 1804Builder:
William Rowe, St Peter's Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne[1]Laid down:
April 1804Launched:
11 August 1804Captured:
Captured February 1805
Career (France)
Name:
BouncerAcquired:
21 February 1805 by purchase of a prizeRenamed:
- Ecuriel (24 September 1814)
- Bouncer (22 March 1815)
- Ecuriel (15 July 1815)Fate:
Condemned 28 June 1827 HMS Bouncer was launched at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1804 for the British Royal Navy. The French captured her in February 1805. She went through several name changes before she was condemned in 1827.
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Lieutenant Samuel Bassan commissioned Bouncer in November 1804.[2]
In February 1805 was run shore on the French coast near Dieppe where the French captured her and her crew.[3]
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The French Navy purchased Bouncer on 21 February 1805 and commissioned her under existing name.[4]
On 10 November 1811 and also on 29 September 1812 Bouncer was at Boulogne-ur-Mer and under the command of Lieutenant de vaisseau de La Rouvraye.
Fate[]
Ecuriel (ex-Bouncer) was condemned on 28 June 1827.[4]
Citations[]
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Hepper (1994), p. 110.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 222.
References[]
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
The original article can be found at HMS Bouncer (1804) and the edit history here.