Confiance (1797 ship)

Capture of Kent by Confiance. Painting by Ambroise Louis Garneray.
History
France
NameConfiance
BuilderBordeaux[1]
LaunchedNovember 1797[1]
CommissionedMay 1799[1]
Captured4 June 1805
United Kingdom
NameHMS Confiance
Acquired4 June 1805 by capture
Honours and
awards
FateSold in 1810
General characteristics [1][4]
TypeCorvette
Displacement
  • 365 tons (French)
  • 700 tons (French) fully loaded
Tons burthen4915994 (bm)
Length
  • Overall:35.86 m (117.7 ft)
  • Keel:30.6 m (100 ft)
Beam9.53 m (31.3 ft)
Draught4.3 m (14 ft)
Crew
  • Pre-1800 150
  • 1800: 23 officers and 190 men
  • British service:140
Armament

Confiance, launched in 1797, was a privateer corvette from Bordeaux, famous for being Robert Surcouf's ship during the capture of the British East India Company's East Indiaman Kent. Confiance had captured a number of ships through the years before the British Royal Navy captured her in 1805, taking her into service under her existing name. The Royal Navy sold her in 1810, by which time she had taken part in two notable actions in British service. Confiance then sailed as a merchantman, until 1816.

  1. ^ a b c d Demerliac (2003), p. 283, №2253.
  2. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 246.
  3. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 242.
  4. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 243.