HMS Actif (1794)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Active.

History
Great Britain
NameActive
Launchedc.1789
Captured21 May 1793
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameActif
Acquired21 May 1793 by capture
Captured16 March 1794
Great Britain
NameHMS Actif
AcquiredBy capture 1794
FateFoundered 1794
General characteristics [1]
Typesloop
Displacementc.150 tons (French)[2]
Tons burthen165, 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

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.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 336.
  2. ^ a b Demerliac (2004), p. 98, n°603.
  3. ^ 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.