&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Entreprenant.jpg) The Royal Navy armed cutter Entreprenante shadowing the remnants of the Franco-Spanish fleet as it runs into Cadiz after the disastrous defeat at Trafalgar, by Thomas Buttersworth
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| Name | Entreprenante |
| In service | 1797 |
| Fate | Captured by the British in 1798 |
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| Name | HMS Entreprenante |
| Acquired | by capture 1798 |
| Commissioned | 1799 |
| In service | Purchased November 1798 and registered 1 June 1799[3] |
| Out of service | Paid off in April 1812 |
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| Fate | Broken up in June 1812 |
| General characteristics [4] | |
| Class and type | 10-gun cutter |
| Tons burthen | 12659⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | 67 ft (20.4 m) (overall), 51 ft 6 in (15.7 m) (keel) |
| Beam | 21+1⁄2 ft (6.6 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) (unladen), 11 ft (3.4 m) (laden) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Complement | 40 |
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HMS Entreprenante (also Entreprenant) was a 10-gun cutter that the Royal Navy captured from the French in 1798. The British commissioned her in 1799 and she served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, participating in the Battle of Trafalgar. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She took part in several small engagements, capturing Spanish and French ships before she was sold in 1812 for breaking up.
- ^ Mayo (1897), p. 298.
- ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 240.
- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 356.
- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 420.