Jean-Louis Pestel

Jean-Louis Pestel was a French ship builder and naval architect active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the older brother of François Pestel, who was also a ship builder and naval architect. Vessels Jean-Louis Pestel built or designed include:

• Aventurier was a corvette launched in 1793 that the Royal Navy captured in 1798. The British named her HMS Aventurier and disposed of her in 1802.[1][2]
• Rhinocéros was launched in 1794 and condemned in 1807. She then served as a prison hulk in 1806.[3]
• Serpente was a Serpente-class corvette launched in 1795 and broken up in 1815.[4]
• Merveilleuse was a 27-ton (French; "of load") privateer schooner from Honfleur, commissioned in 1798.[5] His Majesty's hired armed ship Wright captured her on 7 April 1798.
• French corvette Décidée was a Triomphante-class corvette-cannonière launched at Honfleur in 1804 that the Dutch seized at Antwerp in May 1814 and condemned.[6]
• French corvette Vaillant was a Triomphante-class corvette-cannonière launched at Honfleur in 1804 that the Dutch seized in May 1814 in the Scheld, renamed and Bruinvisch in May 1815, and sold for breaking up in 1822.[6]

Citations and references

Citations

1. Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 205.
2. Winfield (2008), p. 337.
3. Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 385.
4. Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 173.
5. Demerliac (2004), p. 237, n°1977.
6. Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 181.

References

• Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine de la Révolution: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1792 à 1799 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-24-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)