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Name | Active |
Launched | c.1789 |
Captured | 21 May 1793 |
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Name | Actif |
Acquired | 21 May 1793 by capture |
Captured | 16 March 1794 |
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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) |
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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.
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