page_title: French corvette Dragon
hierarchical_section_title: French corvette Dragon
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Corvette française du XVIIIe siècle, le Dragon, ex-brick américain construit en 1776
context_page_description: The French corvette Le Dragon was the last vessel lost by France during the American Revolutionary War. She might have been the former Liverpool privateer brig Dragon captured in the English Channel by the French frigate The Amphitrite on 12 August 1781. The British had acquired her off the Canadian coast on 31 May 1778 by capture. She was at that time the American privateer brigantine Washington, built at Beverly, Massachusetts on 17 September 1776.
  Le Dragon, on her second voyage to the West Indies, was surrounded and threatened by Admiral Hood's large British squadron. Her commander, the young Chevalier de l'Espine, had no other solution than grounding his vessel between the reefs of Monte-Christi roads, Haïti and scuttling her to avoid capture by the enemy. He could then bring his crew, his precious spy-passenger and his secret mail to Cape François, Santo Domingo on 22 January 1783, a few days before the end of the war.
context_section_description: The French corvette Le Dragon was the last vessel lost by France during the American Revolutionary War. She might have been the former Liverpool privateer brig Dragon captured in the English Channel by the French frigate The Amphitrite on 12 August 1781. The British had acquired her off the Canadian coast on 31 May 1778 by capture. She was at that time the American privateer brigantine Washington, built at Beverly, Massachusetts on 17 September 1776.
  Le Dragon, on her second voyage to the West Indies, was surrounded and threatened by Admiral Hood's large British squadron. Her commander, the young Chevalier de l'Espine, had no other solution than grounding his vessel between the reefs of Monte-Christi roads, Haïti and scuttling her to avoid capture by the enemy. He could then bring his crew, his precious spy-passenger and his secret mail to Cape François, Santo Domingo on 22 January 1783, a few days before the end of the war.
caption: Model of French corvette Le Dragon in Ostend, Belgium
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