French frigate Magicienne (1778)
Magicienne was a frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. The British captured her in 1781 and she served with the Royal Navy until her crew burned her in 1810 to prevent her capture after she grounded at Isle de France. During her service with the Royal Navy she captured several privateers and participated in the Battle of San Domingo.
HMS Magicienne and HMS Acasta at the Battle of San Domingo.
Magicienne dismasted after her fight against Sibylle (January 1783).
Magicienne, aground, being scuttled at the Battle of Grand Port.
The Battle of San Domingo was a naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off the southern coast of the French-occupied Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Santo Domingo in the Caribbean.
Duckworth's Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806, Nicholas Pocock
Vice-Admiral Corentin-Urbain Leissègues
Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth Henry William Beechey, 1809, National Maritime Museum
The Battle of San Domingo, 6 February 1806, with H.M.S. Canopus Joining the Action, Thomas Lyde Hornbrook