Antelope (1780 packet)

For other ships with the same name, see Antelope (ship).

Gallant Action between his Majesty's Packet Antelope, & the French Privateer Atalante, Lieutenant Thomas Yates, National Maritime Museum
History
Great Britain
NameAntelope
OperatorPost Office Packet Service
BuilderThames
Launched1780
FateCaptured 1793
General characteristics
Tons burthen190,[1] or 204 (bm)
Complement27
Armament6 x 3-pounder guns

Antelope was a West Indian packet ship launched in 1780. The French captured her in 1781, 1782, and finally, in 1794. She is most famous for a desperate single-ship action in 1793 when her crew captured a better-armed French privateer with a much larger crew.

  1. ^ National Maritime Museum Cornwall- Danger and Duty: The Lives of the Falmouth Packet crew,[1] - accessed 3 July 2014.