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Auteur(s) : Lemineur, Jean-Claude
Titre(s) : La "Volage" [Texte imprimé] : barque longue 1693 / Jean-Claude Lemineur ; translated [from the French] by François Fougerat
Publication : Nice : Ancre, DL 2021
Impression : impr. en Pologne
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (103 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 31 cm
Collection : French naval archeology collection
Lien à la collection : Collection Archéologie navale française
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Fougerat, François. Traducteur
Sujet(s) : Construction navale -- France -- 18e siècle
Corvettes -- France -- 18e siècle
Genre ou forme : Dessins et plans
Indice(s) Dewey :
623.822 5094409 (23e éd.) = Navires de guerre (génie naval) - France - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 979-10-96873-60-9 (br.) : 120 EUR
EAN 9791096873609
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46722451d
Notice n° :
FRBNF46722451
Résumé : ENGLISH VERSION The Volage was a warship of Louis XIV French Royal Navy. Armed with
ten 4-pdrs, with a burthen of 50 tons and a 50-man crew, she was one the biggest of
her class with a length of 63 ½ feet. In the Navy records of 1696 to 1702, reported
as being good, and even sharp under sail. Realy built for privateering, she possessed
nautical properties that allowed her to overtake her preys, and therefore, to be highly
apprciated by Dunkirk privateers. It was aboard a similar bark that Jean Bart began
his talented career as a privateer captain in 1674 during the conflict with the United
Provinces of the Low Countries. The Volage participated in the guerilla warfare initiated
by Vauban and from 1693, by the Royal Navy itself against English trading fleets,
within the framework of the War of the Great Alliance. Her activities probably continued
during the War of Spanish Succession. Ordinarily, she insured the safety of the French
coasts, protecting merchant vessels from piratical raiding. Her missions extended
to the protection of fishing fleets on the Newfoundland Grand Banks. She was striken
from the Navy list in 1706, hauled ashore and rebuilt at Dieppe, probably for a private
ship owner. The Volage, a regular ship of war has nothing in common with the Belle,
built at Rochefort in 1684 by Pierre Masson, which was an ordinary bark rigged as
a corvette. [source éditeur]
