Vautour (1797 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Vautour (ship), HMS Vulture, and Vulture (ship).

History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameVautour
NamesakeVulture
BuilderBourmaud Brothers, Nantes
Launched1797
CommissionedDecember 1797
Captured15 January 1800
United Kingdom
NameVulture
OwnerMather & Co.
Acquired1802 by purchase
FateCaptured 1809; no longer listed in 1810
General characteristics
Tonnage300 tons (French; "of load")[1]
Tons burthen312,[2] or 320,[3] (bm)
PropulsionSail
Complement
Armament
  • 1797: 4 × 12-pounder + 10 × 6-pounder guns + 6 others[1]
  • 1799: 4 × 12-pounder + 16 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 36-pounder obusier de vaisseau[1]
  • 1803: 10 × 12-pounder carronades[2]
  • 1804: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 10 × 12-pounder carronades + 2 swivel guns[2]
  • 1804: 10 × 12-pounders (NC)[a] + 2 × 9-pounder guns
  • 1808: 10 × 12-pounders (NC) + 2 × 6-pounder guns[3]

Vautour was a French privateer launched in 1797 at Nantes that made three privateering voyages. The Royal Navy captured her in 1800 during her fourth cruise. Private owners acquired her prior to late 1801 and employed her as the whaler Vulture (English for vautour) in the South Seas whale fisheries between 1801 and 1809. A Spanish privateer captured her in 1809.

  1. ^ a b c d Demerliac (2004), p. 277, №2177.
  2. ^ a b c d e Cite error: The named reference LoM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c Lloyd's Register (various years)


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