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French brig Créole (1809)

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Name
  
Créole

Commissioned
  
1 January 1809

Displacement
  
53 tonnes

Weight
  
53 tons

Builder
  
Île de France

Struck
  
30 November 1823

Launched
  
1808

Armament
  
10 × 12-pounder carronades

The Créole was a three-masted schooner sloop of war of the French Navy.

On 26 April 1809, she left île de France under captain Bouvet, part of Hamelin's squadron. She sailed to Manilla, where she captured a British and a Portuguese prize. She took part in the re-captured of Foulpointe settlement.

In October 1809, she seized and destroyed the British settlement of Tapanoolie, near Sumatra. She took part in the Action of 18 November 1809, before returning to Île de France. There, she was converted to a brig.

She sailed to Saint Helena in 1811, and returned to Brest in 1812.

She was wrecked in Senegal on 30 November 1823.

References

French brig Créole (1809) Wikipedia