Complex sentence: After a ten-hour chase "Surinam" captured the French vessel, which turned out to be the "Admiral Dacrés", armed with fourteen long 6-pounders and carrying 76 men.
Split into simpler sentences: After a ten-hour chase "Surinam" captured the French vessel, which turned out to be the "Admiral Dacrés". The privateer was armed with fourteen long 6-pounders and carried 76 men.