Vautour (ship)
# Vautour (ship)

Numerous vessels have been named Vautour (French for "vulture"):

Privateers

* Vautour was a privateer that HMS Dryad captured after a six-hour chase. Vautour was armed with seven 4-pounder guns and two 12-pounder carronades. She was of 130 tons burthen (bm), with a crew of 78 men. She had sailed from Morlaiz on 13 October 1796 and not taken anything.
* Vautour (1797 ship) was a privateer launched in 1797 at Nantes that the British Royal Navy captured in 1800. She later became the whaler Vulture that a Spanish privateer captured in 1809.
* Vautour, was a privateer from Bordeaux commissioned in July 1797, with 64 men and 10 guns under a Captain Bolle. HMS Matilda captured Vautour on 29 March 1798.
* Vautour, was a privateer cutter from an unknown harbour, commissioned in early 1797, that HMS Impetueux captured on 8 March 1797.
* Vautour was a Spanish felucca privateer of one 9-pounder gun and 54 men that HMS Fortunee captured off Altavella (the eastern point of the island of Santo Domingo) on 10 August 1804.

Two privateers named Vautour appear in a list of 78 Corsairs commissioned in Boulogne during the period 1793-1814, with Captains Durand and Captain Orielle.

Naval vessels

* HMS Vautour (1810) an 18-gun brig-sloop, captured 1809, commissioned in the Royal Navy 1810, and sunk 1813
* Vautour was an Affronteur-class lugger launched in 1795 at Dieppe and belonging to the French Navy. HMS Boadicea captured her off Cape Finisterre.
* French destroyer Vautour was launched in the 1920s, scuttled in 1942, refloated, and then sunk in an air raid in 1944.

## Citations

* ↑ "No. 13945". The London Gazette. 29 October 1796. p. 1029.
* ↑ Demerliac (1999), p. 272, 2399.
* ↑ Winfield (2008), p. 224.
* ↑ Demerliac (1999), p. 320, no.3051.
* ↑ "No. 15745". The London Gazette. 13 October 1804. p. 1283.
* ↑ Norman (1887), p. 399.
* ↑ "No. 15656". The London Gazette. 13 December 1803. p. 1759.
