page_title: Antelope (1780 packet ship)
hierarchical_section_title: Antelope (1780 packet ship)
caption_attribution_description: English: Handcoloured etching with text below the image; 279x2=372 mm. Text:To the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Chesterfield, &amp; the Rt. Honble Lord Walsingham. - Postmasters General, This Plate representing the Gallant Action between his Majesty's Packet Antelope, &amp; the French Privateer L' Atalante...
context_page_description: Antelope was a West Indian packet ship launched in 1780. The French captured her in 1781, 1782, and finally, in 1794. She is most famous for a desperate single-ship action in 1793 when her crew captured a better-armed French privateer with a much larger crew.
context_section_description: Antelope was a West Indian packet ship launched in 1780. The French captured her in 1781, 1782, and finally, in 1794. She is most famous for a desperate single-ship action in 1793 when her crew captured a better-armed French privateer with a much larger crew.
caption: Gallant Action between his Majesty's Packet Antelope, & the French Privateer  Atalante, Lieutenant Thomas Yates, National Maritime Museum
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