HMS Tigress (1808)

	Lines & profile plan for Tigress, drawn in 1810
History
United States
Name	Numa
Builder	Baltimore
Launched	1801
Renamed	Pierre Cézar (1808)
Captured	29 June 1808
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Tigress
Acquired	29 June 1808 by capture
Renamed	HMS Algerine on 21 April 1814
Fate	Sold on 29 January 1818 for breaking up
General characteristics
Tons burthen	22931⁄94 bm
Length	92 ft 9 in (28.3 m) (overall); 72 ft 9+3⁄4 in (22.2 m) (keel);
Beam	24 ft 4 in (7.4 m)
Depth of hold	10 ft 9 in (3.3 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	50 (British service)
Armament	French letter of marque:4 × 18-pounder carronades + 2 x 6-pounder guns; British service:14 x 12-pounder carronades;

HMS Tigress was the American merchantman Numa and then French letter of marque Pierre Cézar that the Royal Navy acquired by capture and put into service as the gunbrig Tigress. She spent some time on the West African coast in the suppression of the Triangular slave trade. The Admiralty later renamed her as Algerine. She was broken up in 1818.

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