French corvette Robuste (1793)

History
France
Name	Robuste
Owner	Bouteiller (Père et fils)
Builder	Nantes
Launched	1789
Fate	Sold 1793
France
Name	Robuste
Owner	French Navy
Acquired	December 1793
Commissioned	Rochefort, Charente-Maritime
Captured	1796
Great Britain
Name	HMS Scourge
Acquired	1796 by capture
Fate	Sold 1802
General characteristics
Type	Sloop
Displacement	542 tons (French)
Tons burthen	372 34⁄94 (bm)
Length	102 ft 9 in (31.3 m) (overall); 83 ft 5 in (25.4 m) (keel);
Beam	28 ft 11+5⁄8 in (8.8 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 10+1⁄2 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan	Sloop
Complement	Slaver:39; French navy:106; At capture: 145; British service: 125;
Armament	Originally: 10 guns; At capture:22 guns; British service: 18 × 6-pounder guns; Later: 18 × 24-pounder carronades;

The French corvette Robuste was a vessel built at Nantes in 1789 as a slaver that made her first and only slave-trading voyage in 1789-90. The French navy purchased her in December 1793 and she served as a 22-gun corvette in the Channel. The British captured her in 1796 and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS Scourge. She captured a number of French privateers, primarily in the West Indies, before the navy sold her in 1802.

History

France
Name	Robuste
Owner	Bouteiller (Père et fils)
Builder	Nantes
Launched	1789
Fate	Sold 1793
France
Name	Robuste
Owner	French Navy
Acquired	December 1793
Commissioned	Rochefort, Charente-Maritime
Captured	1796
Great Britain
Name	HMS Scourge
Acquired	1796 by capture
Fate	Sold 1802
General characteristics
Type	Sloop
Displacement	542 tons (French)
Tons burthen	372 34⁄94 (bm)
Length	102 ft 9 in (31.3 m) (overall) 83 ft 5 in (25.4 m) (keel)
Beam	28 ft 11+5⁄8 in (8.8 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 10+1⁄2 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan	Sloop
Complement	Slaver:39 French navy:106 At capture: 145 British service: 125
Armament	Originally: 10 guns At capture:22 guns British service: 18 × 6-pounder guns Later: 18 × 24-pounder carronades