Petite Sans Culotte (1793 tartane)

Petite Sans Culotte was a French Navy tartane, or possibly brig-rigged aviso, launched at Toulon in July 1793, and armed with two 6-pounder guns. The British captured her in August at the Siege of Toulon. She was commissioned in September into the British Royal Navy under the command of Lieutenant James Morgan, of HMS Victory. Morgan had been a midshipman on Victory and on his promotion to 8th Lieutenant of Victory, was immediately transferred to Petite Sans Culotte. He brought with him as crew men from Victory. Consequently, the British renamed her Petite Victoire. Petite Victoire served against the batteries surrounding the city and performed useful services during the evacuation of Toulon on 18 December. She was lost off Cap Corse later in 1793.

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 * United Service Magazine (February 1840), Part. 1, p.173.
 * Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015 Forthcoming) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042