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Name: ALACRITY
Type: Sailing Vessel
Keel: 05/1806
Launched: 13/11/1806
Completed: 1806
Builder: William Rowe
Yard: St Peter's
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 382bm, 100.0 x 30.5 x 12.8ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Brig-Sloop
Construction: Wood
Armament: 2 x 6pdr guns, 16 x 32pdr carronades
History:
1806 British Royal Navy
01/07/1811 French Navy
28/08/1822 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Cruizer Class
26/05/1811: Captured by the French brig ABEILLE off Corsica
28/08/1822: Breaking up commenced at Toulon


Capture of ALACRITY (L) by ABEILLE (R). Engraving by Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio