HMS Actif (1794)

History
Great Britain
Name	Active
Launched	c.1789
Captured	21 May 1793
France
Name	Actif
Acquired	21 May 1793 by capture
Captured	16 March 1794
Great Britain
Name	HMS Actif
Acquired	By capture 1794
Fate	Foundered 1794
General characteristics
Type	sloop
Displacement	c.150 tons (French)
Tons burthen	165, or 100 (bm)
Complement	British privateer:40; Royal Navy service:60;
Armament	British privateer:12 × 4-pounder guns + 4 × swivel guns; French privateer: 6 to 16 guns ; Royal Navy service:10 × 4-pounder guns;

HMS Actif was supposedly the British privateer Active that the French captured in 1793 and that became the French privateer Actif. Iphigenia recaptured Actif on 16 March 1794. The Royal Navy took her into service but she foundered on 26 November. All her crew were saved.

^ Winfield (2008), p. 336.
^ ^a ^b Demerliac (2004), p. 98, n°603.
^ ^a ^b "Letter of Marque, p.47 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.

[FOOTNOTEWinfield2008336-1] Winfield (2008), p. 336.

[FOOTNOTEDemerliac200498,_n°603-2] Demerliac (2004), p. 98, n°603.

[LoM-3] "Letter of Marque, p.47 - accessed 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.

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History

Great Britain
Name	Active
Launched	c.1789
Captured	21 May 1793
France
Name	Actif
Acquired	21 May 1793 by capture
Captured	16 March 1794
Great Britain
Name	HMS Actif
Acquired	By capture 1794
Fate	Foundered 1794
General characteristics ^[1]
Type	sloop
Displacement	c.150 tons (French)^[2]
Tons burthen	165, or 100^[3] (bm)
Complement	British privateer:40 Royal Navy service:60
Armament	British privateer:12 × 4-pounder guns + 4 × swivel guns^[3] French privateer: 6 to 16 guns^[2] Royal Navy service:10 × 4-pounder guns