HMS Cruelle (1800)

Plans of Vésuve, lead ship of the class, as surveyed by the British after her capture
History
France
Name	Cruelle
Builder	probably Lemarchand, Saint-Malo
Laid down	ca. March 1793
Launched	July 1793
Captured	1 June 1800
Great Britain
Name	HMS Cruelle
Acquired	1 June 1800 by capture
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt".[1]
Fate	Sold 1801
General characteristics [2][3]
Class and type	Vésuve-class gunbrig
Displacement	140 tons (French)
Tons burthen	158 (bm)
Length	22.74 m (74 ft 7 in) (overall) 19.49 m (63 ft 11 in) (keel)
Beam	6.50 m (21 ft 4 in)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Schooner
Complement	53 (French service)
Armament	French service: 4 × 24-pounder guns + 2 × swivel guns British service: 8 or 10 × 4-pounder guns

Cruelle was a schooner-cannoniere (gun-schooner), launched in 1793. The British captured her in June 1800 and commissioned her as HMS Cruelle. She spent a little over a year in the Mediterranean, serving at Malta and Alexandria before the Royal Navy sold her in 1801.