HMS Saint Lucia
1790 schooner
HMS Saint Lucia was a brig-sloop, the former French Navy schooner Enfant Prodigue, which the British captured in 1803 and took into service with the Royal Navy. Under the British flag she captured three small French privateers and several prizes in the Leeward Islands before two French privateers recaptured her in 1807.
French Navy schooner
Enfant Prodigue was a schooner, built in America in 1790 and coppered in December 1790 at Lorient. The French Navy purchased her at Bordeaux in 1796. The French Navy commissioned her as an aviso under Lieutenant Pierre Guiyesse. From 1 February 1798 to 7 March 1798, she ferried passengers from Cap-Français to A Coruña, and later from Ferrol to Lorient. In 1799 she captured the British schooner HMS Charlotte in a fight that resulted in Charlotte having one man wounded.
Capture
On 24 June 1803, Emerald captured Enfant Prodigue between St Lucia and Martinique after a chase of 72 hours. Captain James O'Bryen of Emerald reported that Enfant Prodigue was pierced for 16 guns but during the chase had thrown all of her guns, however many she actually mounted, overboard. Head money was paid 25 years later.
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