HMS Superieure (1803)
Lines of Superieure, from the National Maritime Museum, Greewich | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Superior |
| Launched | 1801 |
| Acquired | By purchase |
| Renamed | Supérieure on purchase |
| Captured | 2 July 1803 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Superieure |
| Acquired | 2 July 1803 (by capture) |
| Honours & awards |
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| Fate | Sold 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Schooner |
| Tons burthen | 197 (bm) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m) |
| Depth of hold | 9 ft 5 in (2.9 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Schooner |
| Complement | 70 |
| Armament |
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HMS Superieure was the French privateer Supérieure, which was built in 1801 in Baltimore, Maryland, and which the British captured in 1803 in the West Indies, and took into the Royal Navy. She spent most of her career on the Jamaica and Leeward Islands stations, where she captured numerous privateers. She participated in several notable single-ship actions, including one in which she harassed a frigate, and two campaigns that would, in 1847, earn her surviving crew members the Naval General Service Medal (NGSM). She was laid-up in Britain in 1810 and sold in 1814.