French brig Lutin (1788)
{{other ships|HMS Lutine}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = | Ship caption = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= |Ship country=France |Ship flag=File:Flag of France (1814–1830).svg | Ship name = Lutin | Ship namesake = | Ship owner = | Ship operator = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Bayonne. Commencé | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = October 1787 | Ship launched = February 1788 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship captured = 25 July 1793 | Ship fate = | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title |Ship country=Great Britain |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Kingdom of Great Britain|naval}} | Ship name = HMS Lutin | Ship namesake = | Ship owner = | Ship operator = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = | Ship original cost = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = | Ship acquired = 1793 by purchase of a prize | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship renamed = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = Sold 26 January 1796 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption ={{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=288}}{{sfnp|Winfield|Roberts|2015|p=204}}{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=283}} | Ship class = {{sclass|Hazard|brig-aviso}} | Ship tons burthen= 180(French "of load"), or 267 (bm) | Ship length = *Overall: {{cvt|84|ft|0|in|m|2|abbr=on}}
| Ship beam = {{cvt|24|ft|0|in|m|2|abbr=on}} | Ship draught = | Ship draft = | Ship hold depth = {{cvt|11|ft|6|in|m|2|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion = | Ship sail plan = | Ship complement = 100–110 (French service) | Ship armament =*French Navy
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Lutin was a Hasard-class brig-aviso launched at Bayonne in 1788 for the French Navy. Shortly after the outbreak of war with England, the British Royal Navy captured her off Newfoundland. The British took her into service as HMS Lutin. After some two years on the Newfoundland station Lutin sailed to Plymouth where the Navy sold her.
Career
On 1 June 1788 Lutin sailed from Rochefort to Brest in company with the frigates {{ship|French frigate |Gracieuse|1787|2}}, {{ship|French frigate|Néréide|1779|2}}, and {{ship|French frigate|Courageuse|1778|2}}, and her sister-ships {{ship|French brig|Hazard|1788|2}} and {{ship|French brig|Espoir|1788|2}}.{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=288}}
In November 1790 Lutin, under the command of lieutenant de vaiseau Prévost de La Croix, carried guns from Saint Lucie to Fort Royal, Guadeloupe, and Saint Barthélemy. She then returned to Rochefort.{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=288}}
In March 1793 Lutin was at Martinique, under the command of commandante Coquet.{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=288}}
=Capture=
{{HMS|Pluto|1782|6}} captured Lutin off Newfoundland on 25 July 1793.{{sfnp|Schomberg|1802|p=255}}{{sfnp|Winfield|Roberts|2015|p=204}} Lloyd's List reported that Pluto had captured a French packet ship bound for France from Martinique. It further reported that the packet had a crew of 100 men and had suffered one man killed and seven wounded.{{cite news|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044050633098?urlappend=%3Bseq=151 |title=The Marine List |work=Lloyd's List |issue=2540 |date=6 September 1793 |hdl=2027/hvd.32044050633098?urlappend=%3Bseq=151 |accessdate=24 May 2021}} The biography of Commander James N. Morris, Pluto{{'}}s captain, stated that the action took some 15 minutes, that Lutin had a crew of 70 men, and that she had suffered three killed and four wounded.{{sfnp|Marshall|1823|p=489}} The Royal Navy took Lutin into service as HMS Lutin and registered her at Newfoundland on 19 December.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=283}}
Royal Navy
HMS Lutin was commissioned in December 1793 under Commander James Thresher. In June 1794 Commander Ambrose Crofton replaced Thresher. She arrived at Plymouth on 15 November 1795 and was paid off in December.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=283}} Crofton transferred from Lutin to take command of Pluto.{{sfnp|Marshall|1832|p=435}}
Fate
Lutin was sold at Plymouth on 26 January 1796 for £800.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=283}}
Citations
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References
- {{cite RNB1823 |wstitle=Crofton, Ambrose |volume=3 |part=2 |page=435}}
- {{cite RNB1823 |wstitle=Morris, James Nicoll |volume=1 |part=2 |page=488–491}}
- {{cite book|first=Jean-Michel|last=Roche|year=2005|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours|isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6|oclc=165892922|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau|volume=1|page=}}
- {{cite book |last1=Schomberg |first1=Isaac |year=1802 |title=Naval Chronology, Or an Historical Summary of Naval and Maritime Events from the Time of the Romans, to the Treaty of Peace 1802: With an Appendix |location=London |publisher=T. Egerton}}
- {{cite book |first1=Rif |last1=Winfield |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates |publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008 |isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
- {{cite book|last1=Winfield |first1=Rif|last2=Roberts |first2=Stephen S. |year=2015 |title=French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates |publisher=Seaforth Publishing |isbn=978-1-84832-204-2}}
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