Dame Ernouf (ship)

At least three French privateers during the Napoleonic Wars were named Dame Ernouf, for Geneviève Miloent, wife of Jean Augustin Ernouf, governor of Guadeloup:

HMS Curieux Captures Dame Ernouf, 8 February 1805, by Francis Sartorius Jr., National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

• Dame Ernouf (1805 − 1805), was a 200-ton brig with a crew of about 100 men and armed with sixteen 6-pounder guns.^[1] She was under Captain Vilac.^[2] HMS Curieux captured her on 8 February 1805 and the Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Seaforth. Seaforth foundered later that year.
• Dame Ernouf (1806 − 1806), was a privateer of 150 men and 17 guns.^[3] HMS Heureux captured her on 30 March 1806.
• Dame Ernouf (1807 − 1809), made several cruises under Alexis Grassin who had earlier captained Général Ernouf.^{[4][Note 1]} On 11 September 1808, Dame Ernouf captured Brutus, Edwards, master, of and for New York.^[5] She was returning from Bengal when she was captured. Her captors sent her into Cayenne where she arrived on 5 October; Brutus was condemned there.^[6] Dame Ernouf reportedly was a brig of 185 tons (French). On 17 June 1809 she left Guadeloupe, carrying Madame Ernouf back to France for her health. Dame Ernouf arrived at Lorient on 28 July. On this voyage she captured several British merchant vessels: schooner Antelope and brig Hanna, and the ships Joseph, Swifise [sic], and Diana.^[7] Lloyd's List describes Antelope as a Spanish schooner that Dame Ernouf, of six guns, captured on 17 June as Antelope was sailing from St Thomas's to Martinique.^[8] A report from Paris dated 1 March 1810 stated that Dame Ernouf had recently arrived with three prizes, a ship carrying sugar, coffee, and indigo, a brig with cotton, and a ship with oil and cod.^[9] The last readily accessible report states that on 24 July 1810 Dame Ernouf captured two Spanish vessels, one sailing in ballast from London to Caracas, and the other carrying ironmongery from Bristol to Cadiz. Dame Ernouf sank the first and sent the second into Brest.^[10] In 1809, she was decommissioned in Nantes; she was soon recommissioned as a privateer under the name Diligent.^[11] Under her new name, she made several successful cruises under Grassin.^[12]

See also

Général Ernouf

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

1. Demerliac reports that Dame Ernouf was formerly the schooner HMS Barbara that General Ernouf, under Grassin's command, captured on 15 September 1807.^[4] However, Barbera became the privateer Peraty, and the Royal Navy recaptured her in 1808 and took her back into service as Barbara. Furthermore, although Demerliac gives an end-year of 1809 for Dame Ernouf, she apparently continued to capture prizes into early 1810.

Citations

1. Demerliac (2004), p.322, no. 2748.
2. Guérin, p.378
3. Demerliac (2004), p.322, no. 2753.
4. Demerliac (2004), p.323, no. 2757.
5. La Nicollière-Teijero, p.428
6. Lloyd's List no.4317 - accessed 11 May 2016.
7. La Revue Normande: Histoire, littérature, sciences & arts (1892), Vol. 1-2, pp.222-3.
8. Lloy's List, no. 4379 - accessed 11 May 2016.
9. Lloyd's List, no.4440 - accessed 11 May 2016.
10. Lloyd's List, no.4486 - accessed 11 May 2016.
11. La Nicollière-Teijero, p.431
12. La Nicollière-Teijero, p.432

References

• Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 A 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
• Guérin, Léon (1857). Histoire maritime de France (in French). 6. Dufour et Mulat.
• La Nicollière-Teijero, Stéphane (1896). La course et les corsaires du port de Nantes.