the antelope was a west indian packet ship of 204 tons burthen (bm) and six guns. the french attacked and captured her on 10 october 1782. they took her into nantes, from where captain william kempthorne re-purchased her on 4 april 1783, and took her under command."actions, damage & losses."falmouth packet archives 1688-1850. on 1 december 1793, antelope was sailing without captain kempthorne off cumberland harbour, cuba when she sighted two privateers. obeying orders, antelope headed back to port to avoid trouble, but the next day the wind failed, and one of the privateers, atlante (of eight 3-pounder guns), was able to come alongside and attack. antelope was armed with six 3-pounder (1.4&nbsp;kg) guns and manned by a crew of 21. atlante, a french privateer from charleston, south carolina, had a crew of 65, consisting of frenchmen, irishmen, and americans. during the battle, both of antelopes officers were killed or wounded. before he fell, the master, mr. edward curtis, turned the two bow guns, double shoted, to cover the bow, and fired them at the first boarding party, killing and wounding some 15 men; he fell shortly thereafter.anon. (1895), pp.44-52. command fell on boatswain john pascoe, who then led the crew in repelling the boarding parties. antelopes crew repeatedly threw back the privateers, and eventually cut their grapples. in their resistance, antelopes crew was aided by the fact that she was higher than the atlante, enabling the crew to fire down on the deck of the privateer while being protected. not content with having repelled the attacks, pascoe raced up the rigging, lashing the squaresail yard of atlante to antelopes foreshrouds, and continued the battle until atlante surrendered. antelope lost 3 killed and 3 wounded, one mortally. the privateer lost her first captain mortally wounded and second ca
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