French corvette Robuste (1793)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Scourge and French ship Robuste.

History
French Navy Ensign French Navy EnsignFrance
NameRobuste
OwnerBouteiller (Père et fils)[1]
BuilderNantes
Launched1789
FateSold 1793
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameRobuste
OwnerFrench Navy
AcquiredDecember 1793
CommissionedRochefort, Charente-Maritime
Captured1796
Great Britain
NameHMS Scourge
Acquired1796 by capture
FateSold 1802
General characteristics [2]
TypeSloop
Displacement542 tons[3] (French)
Tons burthen372 34⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 102 ft 9 in (31.3 m) (overall)
  • 83 ft 5 in (25.4 m) (keel)
Beam28 ft 11+5⁄8 in (8.8 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 10+1⁄2 in (3.9 m)
Sail planSloop
Complement
  • Slaver:39[1]
  • French navy:106[3]
  • At capture: 145
  • British service: 125
Armament
  • Originally: 10 guns[3]
  • At capture:22 guns
  • British service: 18 × 6-pounder guns
  • Later: 18 × 24-pounder carronades

The French corvette Robuste was a vessel built at Nantes in 1789 as a slaver that made her first and only slave-trading voyage in 1789-90. The French navy purchased her in December 1793 and she served as a 22-gun corvette in the Channel. The British captured her in 1796 and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS Scourge. She captured a number of French privateers, primarily in the West Indies, before the navy sold her in 1802.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference DB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Winfield (2008), pp. 265–6.
  3. ^ a b c Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 213.