French corvette Surveillant (1801)
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The Surveillant was a 16-gun brig of the French Navy
French Navy
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

, built in 1799, launched the next year, and put in service in 1801.

She took part in L'Hermite's expedition
L'Hermite's expedition
L'Hermite's expedition was a French naval operation launched in 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars. The operation was intended as both a commerce raiding operation against the British trading posts of West Africa and as a diversion to the Trafalgar campaign...

before returning to France carrying despatches.

She was demolished in 1811.
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