HMS Curieux

HMS Curieux was a French corvette launched in September 1800 at Saint-Malo to a design by François Pestel, and carrying sixteen 6-pounder guns. She was commissioned under Capitaine de frégate Joseph-Marie-Emmanuel Cordier. The British captured her in 1804 in a cutting-out action at Martinique. In her five-year British career Curieux captured several French privateers and engaged in two notable single-ship actions, also against privateers. In the first she captured Dame Ernouf; in the second, she took heavy casualties in an indecisive action with Revanche. In 1809 Curieux hit a rock; all her crew were saved but they had to set fire to her to prevent her recapture.

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Curieux
corvette, French Navy, Royal Navy, 

• Three Decks page^@
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1800 HMS Curieux

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ship launching

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keel laying

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Frameless

Curieux and Dame Ernouf

Curieux (here in British service), sister-ship of French brig Milan (1807)

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Three Decks page@		Wikidata
commons	image		Curieux and Dame Ernouf		Commons
commons	image		Curieux (here in British service), sister-ship of French brig Milan (1807)		Commons