French corvette Bayonnaise (1794)

The Bayonnaise was a 24-gun corvette of the French Navy, formerly built in 1793 and operated as a privateer before being taken into the French Navy in March 1794. She became famous for her fight against HMS Ambuscade on 14 December 1798.

Her hull was coppered in 1795 in Brest.

In late 1798, under lieutenant de vaisseau Jean-Baptiste-Edmond Richer, she was used to ferry 120 prisoners from Rochefort to French Guyana. She ferried troops and despatches from Cayenne to Guadeloupe, and headed back for France.

She became famous for the Action of 14 December 1798, in which she captured the much stronger 32-gun HMS Ambuscade off the Gironde.

She fought in other skirmished until 28 November 1803, when she was beached and scuttled by fire to avoid capture by HMS Ardent.

Bayonnaise's wreck located in Langosteira beach on works of "Finisterre Project".

Sources and references
http://inadiscover.com/blogs/finisterre/