[3] Adapting the privateer to Navy standard was not trivial: she came armed with 28 British 24-pounder long guns, which had to be rebored or replaced to fire the larger French 24-pounder cannonballs, the weight of the French pound being heavier than the British pound.

The ship had a number of guests, among whom Gontaut de Lauzun, Vioménil, Montmorency-Laval, Chabannes, Vauban, Melfort, Talleyrand-Périgord, Champcenetz, Mac-Mahon, Fleury and American Major Porter.

[9] On their way, Aigle and Gloire skirmished with the 74-gun HMS Hector in the night Action of 5 September 1782; Hector was sailing to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a prize crew, under Captain John Bourchier,[10] in a convoy under Rear-admiral Graves.

Hector was saved from captured when the morning revealed the rest of the convoy and Latouche decided to retreat.

Aigle had had on board some senior French officers, who escaped ashore, as did the now-wealthy pilot.

[a] Latouche had cut away her masts in an attempt to lighten her, and when that failed, had had holes bored in her hull.

[13] The British commissioned Aigle under Captain Richard Creyk in December 1782 for the Leeward Islands station.

On 9 December 1795, the French frigate Sensible and corvette Sardine captured Nemesis while she was at anchor in the neutral port of Smyrna.

[14] Then on 30 July, she, with Boston in company, captured the French privateer lugger Hazard of eight guns and 50 men.

The weather prevented the lugger from bringing one out, a brig, so Tyler had her cargo of rice taken out and then burnt the vessel, which was Spanish, bound for Corunna.

[20] On 13 October, Aigle and Boston captured the Spanish packet ship Patagon.

[21] At the end of November, on the 30th, Aigle captured a French privateer of four guns and 52 men.

[22] The day after Christmas, Aigle was in company with Aurora chased three vessels into the bay of Corunna, where they captured their quarry.

Captain Richard Williams of Gorgon put a prize crew aboard and took her with him into Lisbon.

[25] Aigle was under Tyler's command when she was wrecked on 19 August 1798 on Plane Island off Cape Farina, Tunisia, due to an error in navigation.

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