Gironde arrived at Plymouth on 14 August 1800. Young William, Charles Bacon, master, returning from the South Sea's with a cargo of (whale) oil.Active brig, Benjamin Tucker, master, from Bermuda, carrying sugar and cotton and.Countess of Lauderdale, Thomas Bennett, master, from Demerary, carrying sugar and cotton.Swan sloop, Andrew Miller, Master, from Oporto and carrying wine.The four vessels Gironde had captured whose crew were aboard her were: She had on board 53 English prisoners, the masters and crews of four vessels that she had captured. Captain T.B.Martin, of Fisgard, stated Gironde had been a particularly successful and active vessel. HMS Fisgard captured the privateer Gironde on 28 July 1800. Following the Convention of 1800, the Conseil des Prises released Alknomac on 28 October 1801, with no damages. In early 1800 Gironde captured the American ship Alknomac, Francis Miller, master, James and Edwin Gairdner, owners, and sent her into Lorient and Île de Ré. Both vessels were armed and they resisted before being forced to strike. On 17 April, Gironde captured Minerva, James Thomas, master, which was sailing in company with Nymphe, James Hardy, master, of Philadelphia. The schooner had been sailing from Caracas to Corunna with a cargo of cocoa and indigo. HMS Pomone recaptured, on 9 April 1799, an American schooner that Gironde had taken on 1 April. There the French consul condemned vessel and cargo as English property they were sold for 723,916 Spanish reals. Gironde, Captain Darigand, captured Commerce on 11 October off Newfoundland and took her into Santander, where she arrived on 8 November. Ĭommerce, Robert Caleff, master, Richard Calef, owner, had departed her homeport of Norfolk (Virginia), with a cargo of tobacco for London. The British recaptured her on 23 September. Gironde captured George, Christopher WHipple, master, of New York, in August 1798. The vessels were Clermont, Commerce, and George, and two other English vessels and one Portuguese.
In November 1798 Lloyd's List reported that Gironde had captured several vessels near the Newfoundland Banks. In February 1798, Gironde captured Blinmont, of Wilmington, and took her into Bordeaux. Gironde was sold at Bordeaux in 1797 and re-rigged. The French Navy struck her from the lists in 1797. She took part in the Expédition de Cayenne in 1795. Gironde was renamed Bec d'Ambez in early 1794, but reverted to Gironde in May 1795. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1800 but never commissioned her it sold her in 1801. She became a privateer operating out of Bordeaux. In 1797 she was struck from the lists and sold. The French brig Gironde was launched at Rochefort in 1793 as a Dédaigneuse-class gun-brig of the French Navy. British service: 14 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder chase guns.French Navy: 3 × 24-pounder guns + 10 swivel guns.1794: Bec d'Ambez (for the Bec d'Ambès).
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