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SURINAM
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Corvette
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The French corvette LE HUSSAR taken by Vice-Ad. Lord SEYMOUR's squadron at Surinam on 20 August 1799. |
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- A fine vessel only seven months old and armed with twenty 9-pounders, she was renamed SURINAM and Lieut. Christopher COLE of the PRINCE OF WALES was appointed to command her by Lord Hugh SEYMOUR.
Her crew maintained good health at a time yellow fever was ravaging other ships. - 1803 Lieut. Robert TUCKER.(act.
Cdr.) She was detained as a prize by the Dutch on the Isle of Curacao in the summer of 1803, renamed SURINAME and retaken on 1 January 1807 when the island was captured by Captain Charles BRISBANE's squadron.
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