HMS Fortune (1778)

The French sailed from Saint-Malo on 13 May and immediately encountered a British naval relief squadron, that included Fortune, that belatedly come up.

The task force comprised the 74-gun Héros (under Suffren himself) and Annibal (under Trémignon), and the 64-gun Artésien (under Cardaillac), Sphinx (under du Chilleau) and Vengeur (under Forbin), [6] as well as the 16-gun corvette Fortune (under Lieutenant Lusignan), and seven transports [7] carrying the Régiment de Pondichéry, under Brigadier General Thomas Conway.

[9] She took part in the Battle of Porto Praya, where she captured the fireship HMS Infernal; Suffren then ordered Lusignan to bring orders to the French transports, and he abandoned Infernal after taking her captain and 15 men prisoners.

[10] On 21 August 1782, Ilustre and Saint-Michel arrived at Batacalo, making their junction with the squadron under Suffren.

[11] On 20 August 1782, Lusignan was at the vanguard of the French squadron when it departed Batacalo for the Battle of Trincomalee.

[11] After the Battle, in early September 1782, Suffren promoted Bouvet de Maisonneuve to the command of Fortune.

[12] In April 1783, after the Peace of Paris brought about a cease-fire between the French and the British, Suffren sent Fortune back to France to report on his situation.

In January 1787 she was transferred to the Régie des Paquebots, for whom she served on the Havre-New York line.