French corvette Brune (1781)
{{Short description|Coquette class corvette}}
{{Other ships|French ship Brune}}
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Brune was a {{sclass|Coquette|corvette|0}} 20-gun corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1781 and captured in 1799 at the siege of Corfu, which saw a joint Russian and Turkish fleet capture Corfu from an occupying French force.
Career
On 15 November 1794, {{ship|French frigate|Minerve|1794|2}}, in company with {{ship|French frigate|Alceste|1780|2}} and Brune, under Ensign Deniéport sailed for a diplomatic mission to Tunis before returning to Toulon on 29 December.Fonds Marine, p.81 Brune was present at the action of 8 March 1795, and near the subsequent battle of Hyères Islands: in mid-July, Brune and the frigate {{ship|French frigate|Vestale|1781|2}}, under Commander Delorme,Roche, p.461 escorted a 25-ship wheat convoy from Genoa to France, when three enemy frigates gave chase; Brune, which was a very bad sailor, had to take refugee at La Spezia, while Vestale managed to keep the frigates at bay and defend the convoy.Guérin, vol.6, p.511 After Deniéport was promoted to lieutenant and commander, she continued to escort convoys in the Adriatic Sea.
On 26 March 1797, Brune departed Ancona in a division led by Commander Sibille, of the eight-gun Bonaparte. The other vessels were the lugger Libérateur d'Italie (under Laugier), the xebec Corse (under Muron), and two transports loaded with ammunition.Troude, vol.3, p.64
By 1798, Brune was at Corfu, when the city came under siege by a Russo-Ottoman fleet. During the siege she slipped by the Russian ships and into Corfu to inform General Chabot that reinforcements were coming from Ancona. The reinforcements did leave on 8 December, but only reached Corfu's north coast in early January. They then left when they were unable to establish contact with Chabot.Şukul (2009), p.135.
On 28 February 1799, the Russians and Ottomans attacked Vido, which is a small island (less than kilometer in diameter) at the mouth of the port of Corfu. After a four-hour bombardment by several ships, the attackers had succeeded in suppressing all five shore batteries on the island. {{HMS|Leander|1780|2}} and Brune tried to intervene but were damaged and forced to retreat to the protection of the batteries of Corfu.Şukul (2009), pp.160-1.
On 3 March 1799, the Russians captured Brune. At the end of the siege the victors divided up the spoils, and the Russians gave her to the Ottomans.Şukul (2009), p.165.{{London Gazette|issue=15149|page=614|date=18 June 1799}}Naval Chronicle, Vol. 2, p.377.
Citations
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References
- {{cite book|title=Histoire maritime de France|last=Guérin|first=Léon|authorlink=Léon Guérin|year=1857|publisher=Dufour et Mulat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=guFcnon3mZ4C|language=French|volume=6|page=78}}
- {{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=88}}
- Şukul, Kahraman (2009) An Ottoman Global Moment: War of Second Coalition in the Levant. (Georgetown Univ.: Unpublished PhD dissertation).
- {{Cite book|first=Onésime-Joachim|last=Troude|authorlink=Onésime-Joachim Troude|year=1867|publisher=Challamel ainé|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rhIR5D5quFYC|title=Batailles navales de la France|language=French|volume=3}}
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Category:Age of Sail frigates of France
Category:Coquette-class corvettes