HMS Dangereuse (1799)

HMS Dangereuse was a small gunboat, one of a flotilla of seven vessels that Commodore Sir Sidney Smith in HMS Tigre (1795) took at Acre on 18 March 1799, of which the British took five into service. At capture Dangereuse carried six guns and had a crew of 23 men. The British put her under the command of Lieutenant R. Tyte.

She served in the Egyptian campaign of 1801 where, together with the gunboat Janissary and the cutter HMS Cruelle (1800), she protected the left flank during the landing of troops in Aboukir Bay.

Dangereuse was sold later that same year. In 1850 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt" to claimants from the crews of the vessels that had served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, including Dangereuse.

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