Antelope (1780 packet)

Gallant Action between his Majesty's Packet Antelope, & the French Privateer Atalante, Lieutenant Thomas Yates, National Maritime Museum
History
Great Britain
NameAntelope
OperatorPost Office Packet Service
BuilderThames
Launched1780
FateCaptured 1793
General characteristics
Tons burthen190, or 204 (bm)
Complement27
Armament6 x 3-pounder guns

Antelope was a West Indian packet ship launched in 1780. The French captured her in 1781, 1782, and finally, in 1794. She is most famous for a desperate single-ship action in 1793 when her crew captured a better-armed French privateer with a much larger crew.

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