HMS Cruelle (1800)

	Plans of Vésuve, lead ship of the class, as surveyed by the British after her capture
History
France
Name	Cruelle
Builder	probably Lemarchand, Saint-Malo
Laid down	ca. March 1793
Launched	July 1793
Captured	1 June 1800
Great Britain
Name	HMS Cruelle
Acquired	1 June 1800 by capture
Honours &; awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt".
Fate	Sold 1801
General characteristics
Class & type	Vésuve-class gunbrig
Displacement	140 tons (French)
Tons burthen	158 (bm)
Length	22.74 m (74 ft 7 in) (overall); 19.49 m (63 ft 11 in) (keel);
Beam	6.50 m (21 ft 4 in)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Schooner
Complement	53 (French service)
Armament	French service: 4 × 24-pounder guns + 2 × swivel guns; British service: 8 or 10 × 4-pounder guns;

Cruelle was a schooner-cannoniere (gun-schooner), launched in 1793. The British captured her in June 1800 and commissioned her as HMS Cruelle. She spent a little over a year in the Mediterranean, serving at Malta and Alexandria before the Royal Navy sold her in 1801.

History
Plans of Vésuve, lead ship of the class, as surveyed by the British after her capture
France
Name	Cruelle
Builder	probably Lemarchand, Saint-Malo
Laid down	ca. March 1793
Launched	July 1793
Captured	1 June 1800
Great Britain
Name	HMS Cruelle
Acquired	1 June 1800 by capture
Honours & awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt".
Fate	Sold 1801
General characteristics
Class & type	Vésuve-class gunbrig
Displacement	140 tons (French)
Tons burthen	158 (bm)
Length	22.74 m (74 ft 7 in) (overall) 19.49 m (63 ft 11 in) (keel)
Beam	6.50 m (21 ft 4 in)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Schooner
Complement	53 (French service)
Armament	French service: 4 × 24-pounder guns + 2 × swivel guns British service: 8 or 10 × 4-pounder guns