List of French privateers named for Napoleon Bonaparte

Several privateers during the Age of Sail were named for Napoleon Bonaparte:

• Invincible General Bonaparte was a French privateer of 20 guns and 170 men that the frigate HMS Boadicea captured on 9 December 1798 and that the Royal Navy took into service as HMS Brazen
• Invincible Napoleon (1804 ship) (or Invincible Bonaparte, or later Invincible), which the British Royal Navy captured three times and American privateers captured twice.
• HMS Pert was the French privateer Bonaparte that HMS Cyane captured in November 1804. Pert was wrecked in October 1807 off the coast of what is now Venezuela.
• HMS Dominica (1805) was a schooner purchased in 1805, whose crew mutinied in 1806 and turned her over to the French who sent her out as the privateer Napoleon. Within four days of the mutiny Wasp had recaptured her; she was taken back into service under her original name and broken up in 1808.
• Napoleon operated in the Indian Ocean in 1805 under the command of Captain Malo le Nouvel. She was armed with 30 guns and had a crew of 180 men.
• Grand Napoléon was a privateer commissioned in Boulogne in March 1806. She under a captain Huret from January to February 1808, and later under a captain Fourmentin.
• HMS Swaggerer was the French privateer Bonaparte (or Napoleon), captured in 1809 (or 1808). She served the Royal Navy in the Leeward Islands until broken up in 1815.
• Napoleon (alias Diaboloten), of 10 guns, was a vessel the Royal Navy captured at Malaga on 29 May 1812.

See also: Premier Consul (1800)