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French corvette Var (1806)

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Career
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Citations and references

{{Other ships|French ship Var|HMS Chichester}}Var}}>{{Infobox ship career

Ship country=France

Ship flag=

Ship name=Var

Ship namesake=Var (department)

Ship ordered=26 March 1805

Ship builder=La Ciotat

Ship laid down=July 1805

Ship launched=8 September 1806

Ship fate= Captured February 1809
}}{{Infobox ship career

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Ship country=United Kingdom

Ship flag=

Ship name=Chichester

Ship acquired=February 1809 by capture

Ship fate=Wrecked May 1811
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics

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Ship class=Var-class flute

Ship displacement=800 tons (French)

Ship tons burthen=777 (bm)

140|ft|10|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

Keel: {{convert|118|ft|10|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

35|ft|0+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

Ship hod depth={{convert|11|ft|6+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

Ship propulsion=Sail

Ship complement=*French service:101-159

British service:88

Ship armament=*French service:22 x 9-pounder guns + 4 x 24-pounder carronades

British service
- Upper deck: 14 x 6-pounder guns
- QD: 4 x 4-pounder guns

}}

Var was a corvette of the French Navy, launched in 1806 as the name-ship of her class of flutes. She served as a storeship until the British captured her in 1809. She became the transport HMS Chichester, and was wrecked in 1811.

Career

Var was built to a design of Pierre-Alexandre Forfait, though Jacques-Noël Sanė modified it.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=398}}

On the morning of 14 February 1809, {{HMS|Belle Poule|1806|6}}, under the command of Captain James Brisbane, was about 12 leagues north of Corfu when she sighted a suspicious sail. Belle Poule gave chase and caught up with Var the next morning, finding her anchored under the guns of the fortresses guarding Valona. The fortresses did not come to Var{{'}}s assistance, so after a few broadsides from Belle Poule, she struck. Var was under the command of capitaine de frégate Paulin, who was sailing her from Corfu to Brindisi. The British suffered no casualties; Brisbane could not assess French casualties as most of Var{{'}}s officers and men escaped ashore after she struck.^[1] (A French court martial on 16 April 1814 acquitted Paulin for the loss of his ship.)

Var was sent to Woolwich for fitting as a storeship, which took from 21 January to 23 March 1810.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=398}} She was brought into British service as HMS Chichester.

Loss

On 2 May 1811, as she sailed under Master William Kirby, she was wrecked on the Madras roadstead with the loss of two crew. The violent gale also claimed the frigate Dover, several merchant vessels, and some 70 small craft.^[2]{{sfnp|Hepper|1994|p=136}}

Citations and references

Citations

1. ^{{London Gazette|date=2 May 1809|issue=16253|pages=621–622}}
2. ^[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=183 Lloyd's List, №4611.]

References

{{cite book|last=Hepper|first=David J.|year=1994|title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859|publisher=Jean Boudriot|location=Rotherfield|isbn=0-948864-30-3}}
{{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2008|isbn=1-86176-246-1}}
Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). {{ISBN|9781848322042}}

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