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French brig Pandour (1804)

Pandour
History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NamePandour
NamesakeThe pandours (e.g. Trenck's Pandurs)
Ordered22 March 1803
BuilderLouis, Antoine, & Mathurin Crucy, Basse-Indre[1]
Laid downDecember 1803
Launched23 June 1804[1]
Commissioned7 November 1804
Captured1 May 1806
United Kingdom
NamePandour
Acquired1807 by purchase
FateLost 1809
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeCurieux-class brig
Displacement290 tons (French)
Tons burthen308-310[2] (bm)
Length
  • 27.93 m (91 ft 8 in) (overall)
  • 23.39 m (76 ft 9 in) (keel)
Beam8.45 m (27 ft 9 in)
Sail planBrig
Complement
  • French service: 94
  • Whaler: 40[2]
Armament
  • French service: 18 × 6-pounder guns
  • Whaler: 20 × 18 & 12-pounder guns;[2] 22 × 12-pounder guns (NC);[a] 16 × 12-pounder carronades + 2 × 9-pounder guns[4]

The French brig Pandour was a brig of the French Navy launched in 1804 that the Royal Navy captured in 1806. In 1807 she became a whaler in the South Seas Fisheries, but was lost in late 1809.

  1. ^ a b c Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 215.
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