HMS Tobago (1805)

United Kingdom
NameHMS Tobago
Acquired1805 by purchase[1]
FateCaptured October 1806
France
NameVengeur
AcquiredBy capture 1806
CapturedJanuary 1809
United Kingdom
NameHMS Vengeur
AcquiredBy capture January 1809
FateSold 1809
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen120,[2] or 127 bm
PropulsionSails
Sail planSchooner
Armament
  • Tobago: 10 guns
  • Vengeur: 16 guns

HMS Tobago was a schooner of unknown origin that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1805. In 1806 a French privateer captured her. The Royal Navy recaptured her in 1809 and took her into service as HMS Vengeur before selling her later that year.

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 370.
  2. ^ Hepper (1994), p. 115.