French Corvette Lynx (1804) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lynx was a 16-gun brig of the French Navy, launched at Bayonne on 17 April 1804, and commissioned in June under Lieutenant Fargenel. The British captured her in 1807. After service in the Caribbean she was sold in 1814. She took part in the Trafalgar Campaign, ferrying dispatches between Fort de France and France, where she arrived on 10 July 1805. She was then attached to a five-frigate squadron under Commodore Eleonore-Jean-Nicolas Soleil, tasked with ferrying supplies and troops to the French West Indies.