According to a letter dated 17 October 1804, written by Joseph Nourse, commanding the Barbadoes, he was able to capture in the morning of 17 October after a chase of 13 hours, some times firing with the stern and bow chasers, the French privateer Napoleon, armed with 18 guns of which 2 were thrown overboard during the chase and a crew of 150 men. She left the harbour nine days earlier for her first cruise but still without any success. Her homeport was Guadeloupe, her captain Suyrvens Pitot, enseigne de vaisseau. She proved to be the former packet Duke of Kent. According to a letter dated 7 November 1804, written by Samuel Hood she was just four days at sea.
According to the Naval Gazetteer the French privateer Napoleon, a ship, armed with 18 guns and a crew of 150 men was captured by the British Barbadoes, commanded by J. Nourse 17 October 1804 at Latitude 17º40' North and Longitude 59º54' West.
Vichot only mentioned that the Le Napoléon was captured 17 October 1804 by the Barbadoes.
Colledge mentioned the 28 gun-6th rate Barbadoes, 755 tons builders measurement, dimensions 140 x 36½, which was herself captured as the French privateer Le Brave in May 1803 and transferred by the inhabitants of Barbados to the royal British navy. She was wrecked 28 September 1812 on Sable Island. Vichot mentioned a privateer Le Brave, first mentioned 1801 and which was May 1803 captured by the British and taken into naval service as the Barbadoes. Rif Winfield (p. 225-226) wrote that the Le Brave probably was built at Bordeaux in 1799
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Sources
The Naval Gazetteer, published by J.W. Norris&Co., 1827, p. 507.
The Naval Chronicle vol. XIII, p. 72-73.
J.J. Colledge. Ships of the Royal Navy. An historical index. Newton Abbot, 1969, p. 64.
J. Vichot. Répertoire des navires de guerre français. 1967.
Rif Winfield. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817. Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. 2008, p. 225-226.
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