HMS Révolutionnaire (1794)

[5] Artois was part of a four-frigate squadron that encountered Revolutionnaire at daybreak about eight to ten leagues west of Ushant.

The French lost eight men killed and five wounded, including the captain, Citizen Antoine René Thévenard.

After the battle, she towed Alexander, which the French had captured the previous November and which the British had just recaptured, back to Plymouth.

In 1847 the Admiralty issued the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "23 June 1795" to all surviving claimants from the action.

The vessels sharing in the prize money were: Indefatigable, Concorde, Revolutionaire, Amazon, Argo, and the hired armed luggers Dolly and Duke of York.

Unité, under the command of Citizen Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois, struck after Revolutionnaire's second broadside.

[10][c] Among the prisoners were the wife of Admiral Jean-Amable Lelarge, as well as one of his sons, who served as an officer on Unité.

Pellew had them released on parole[11] and ordered the captured ship to be commanded to England by Edward Ellicott, first lieutenant of the Revolutionnaire, who was cited by Captain Cole "for his very particular attention in keeping sight of the chase, and for his steady and manly conduct when close engaged.

[d] On 1 October 1796, Revolutionnaire, Indefatigable, Amazon, and Phoebe shared in the capture of Vrow Delenea Maria.

[14] Later that month, after the Battle of Tory Island, the French frigates Loire and Sémillante escaped into Black Sod Bay, where they hoped to hide until they had a clear passage back to France.

[15] Pressing on sail in pursuit, Newman ordered Revolutionaire to focus on Sémillante whilst he pursued Loire in Mermaid, accompanied by the brig Kangaroo under Commander Edward Brace.

[4] Revolutionnaire shared with Boadicea, Pique and the hired armed cutter Nimrod in the capture of Anna Christiana on 17 May 1798.

[18][e] Revolutionnaire was in company with Dryad and Diamond when Revolutionaire captured the French letter of marque brig Hyppolite on 29 May.

[20] Then on 19 September, Revolutionnaire and Dryad captured Cères, another French letter of marque, en route from Bordeaux to the Caribbean.

Twysden, in an attempt to interest the Admiralty in purchasing her, described Bordelais as "a most beautiful new Ship, well calculated for His Majesty's Service; was the largest, and esteemed the fastest sailing Privateer out of France.

Dryad had been on a cruise out of Cork and was on her way home when on 2 April, with her rigging much damaged by hurricanes, when she had encountered Revolutionnaire, which had lost her rudder.

She was 20 days out of Passage and had capture the British brig William, of London, which had been sailing from St. Michael's with a cargo of fruit.

In May Lloyd's List reported that the French privateer Braave had captured Nimble, Nuttell, master, as she was sailing from Demerara to Liverpool.

[4] In May 1802, shortly after the Peace of Amiens, Thomas Bladen Capel was appointed captain of Révolutionnaire.

[39] Then on 1 December Revolutionnaire captured the French schooners Ceres, and her crew of 76 men, and Marian, in ballast.

Revolutionnaire shared in the prize money for Formidable, Duguay Trouin and Mont Blanc, as well as Scipion.

[4] Revolutionnaire shared with Hero, Iris, and Confiance in the proceeds from the recapture on 11 January 1807 of the schooner Monarch.

Ajax had been sailing from Aberdeen to St Croix when the American privateer General Tompkins, of fourteen 18-pounder guns and 109 men, had captured her on 31 March.

On 27 August the boats of the squadron made a successful attack on the island of Santa Clara, at the mouth of the harbour of Saint Sebastian.

She then provided seamen to man a battery of 24-pounder guns from Surveillante hauled up to the top of the island.

[4][k] At midnight or so on 16 December Vengeur, which was carrying the king of Naples, was under full sail when she ran into the side of Revolutionnaire.

Santa Clara Island, San Sebastian
Portrait of Révolutionnaire in 1820, by Antoine Roux .