An author of some 50 novels and nonfiction books, Mr. de Baleine received two prizes from the Académie Française, France's top literary academy, including one for "Voyage Espiègle et Romanesque sur le Petit Train du Congo" (roughly "A Mischievous and Romantic Trip on Congo's Little Train").
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When Sybille caught up with Espiègle, Espiègle struck after a pro-forma discharge of her guns. Diligente being faster than her consorts, Lemaresquier out-sailed both the British ships and his companions, and sailed West.Troude, op. cit., vol.
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Troude, op. cit., vol. 3, p. 509-510 On 16 August, Espiègle encountered the 38-gun HMS Sybille.
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She was on her first cruise from Granville but had made no captures in the three days she had been out.The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 103. p.155. Then on 16 August, Sybille captured the French brig-corvette Espiègle, later recommissioned in the Royal Navy as . Espiègle arrived in Cork on the evening of 31 August.
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She was armed with 18 guns and had a crew of 206 men. She was three days out of Brest. The same four ships also captured Jeune Emilie and Recovery. On 18 May 1797 Phoenix captured the French privateer lugger Espiègle off Waterford. Espiègle was armed with four guns and had a crew of 38 men.
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Comet caught up with the two laggards, with Espiègle ahead. Comet then engaged Sylphe,James (1837), Vol. 5, p.77. capturing her near the Île d'Yeu.
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Diligente took part in the Atlantic campaign of 1806 in Leissègues' squadron, culminating in the Battle of San Domingo. The frigates , , and Diligente captured and burned the American vessel Lark, Moore, master, which was sailing from Philadelphia to Jamaica. In August 1808 Diligente, captained by Commander Jean-François Lemaresquier, with the corvettes and Espiègle, sailed from France with supplies for the island of Martinique. British ships chased the group through the Bay of Biscay and captured Sylphe and Espiègle.
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The French, under orders to avoid combat, attempted to escape. Diligente out-sailed her two consorts. Comet caught up with the two laggards, with Espiègle ahead. Comet then engaged Sylphe,James (1837), Vol.
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On 9 August 1808 Sylphe, under the command of capitaine de frégate M. Louis Marie Clément, (a Member of the Legion of Honour), sailed with Diligente and Espiègle, to carry supplies from Lorient to Guadeloupe. On 11 August they encountered the 18-gun , under the command of Commander Cuthbert Featherstone Daly. The French, under orders to avoid combat, attempted to escape. Diligente out-sailed her two consorts.
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Comet shared with HMS Seine, Cossack, and in the capture on 29 June of Pierre Caesar (or Pierre Cézar). The Royal Navy took Pierre Caesar into service as . On 9 August the , under the command of capitaine de frégate M. Louis Marie Clément, (a Member of the Legion of Honour), sailed with Diligente and Espiègle, to carry supplies from Lorient to Guadeloupe. On 11 August they encountered Comet.
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The 167 captured crew members were taken to Plymouth. While cruising off the Isle of Wight on 15 May 1797, Melpomene captured Espiègle, a small armed-lugger from Fécamp carrying 32 men. On 17 July, she captured another French privateer, Triton. On 3 August 1798, Melpomene was cruising off the north coast of Brittany with when a French brig, Adventurier, and accompanying merchant ships were discovered in the bay of Corréjou.
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Philippe de Baleine (27 September 1921 – 7 June 2018), also known as Philippe de Jonas, was a French author. He is the recipient of two literary prizes from the Académie française: the Prix J.-J. Weiss for Hôtel des Piranhas in 1984, and the Prix de Littérature générale for Voyage espiègle et romanesque sur le petit train du Congo in 1992. He died in June 2018 at the age of 96.
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She sailed from Lorient on 15 August 1808 under the command of Lieutenant de vaisseau Maujouan, and in the company of and . The three ships were sailing across the Bay of Biscay en route to Martinique to deliver supplies when they encountered , under Captain Cuthbert Featherstone Daly, on 17 August. Comet soon captured Sylphe but the other two escaped. The next day Captain Clotworthy Upton in Sybille captured Espiègle.
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They then captured the third brig, the 16-gun Mercury. The Royal Navy took Argo and Mercury into service, Argo became and Mercury became . After this success Halsted was assigned to operate off the Irish coast, where he captured a number of privateers including the 4-gun Espiègle off Waterford on 18 May 1797, the 1-gun Brave off Cape Clear on 24 April 1798, the 20-gun Caroline on 31 May 1798, and the 20-gun Foudroyant on 23 January 1799.
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On 11 August 1808, Lemaresquier commanded the 20-gun corvette Diligente, which sailed with the corvettes Sylphe and Espiègle from France with supplies for the island of Martinique. The 26-gun HMS Comet, under Featherstone Daly, chased the French squadron through the Bay of Biscay. The squadron changed course to avoid the stronger British corvette, which focused her attention on Sylphe, the weakest of the three French ships. Even though Sylphe made all sail and jettisoned part of her cargo, Cometcaught up with her at 15:30; Sylphe and surrendered after a one-hour fight.
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L'Arroseur Arrosé (; also known as The Waterer Watered and The Sprinkler Sprinkled) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent comedy film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc and Benoît Duval. It was first screened on June 10, 1895. It is the earliest known instance of film comedy, the first use of film to portray a fictional story, and the first use of a promotional film poster. The film was originally known as Le Jardinier ("The Gardener") or Le Jardinier et le petit espiègle, and is sometimes referred to in English as The Tables Turned on the Gardener, and The Sprinkler Sprinkled.
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Ferdinand Berthoud's clocks soon became a success and were used on board ship for various test campaigns and charting voyages. In 1771, Borda boarded the frigate Flore, under Lieutenant Verdun de la Crenne, for a campaign of tests on sea chronometers, sailing from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean. Count Chastenet de Puységur (1752–1809), captain of the corvette Espiègle, accompanied Borda, captain of Boussole, in an expedition to the Canaries and the coast of Africa in 1774 and 1775.Collective work, Catherine Cardinal et al., Ferdinand Berthoud 1727–1807 Horloger mécanicien du Roi et de la Marine, La Chaux-de-Fonds: International Horology Museum, Institut L'homme et le temps, 1984, pages 33–37.
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On the protection declaration of the German Reich over the New Kingdom archipelago (November / December 1884, renamed after that afterwards in Bismarck archipelago) reacted Hernsheim & Co with a restructuring of their company possession. The branches of the Marshall Group and the Yap group were merged with those of the German Trading and Plantation Society of the South Sea Islands of Hamburg (DHPG) to Jaluit Society (December 1887). In contrast, the Matupi branch was outsourced, taken over by Eduard Hernsheim in sole responsibility and converted into the Hernsheim & Co OHG (1888/89). Following individual deliveries to SMS Habicht, Carola, Hyäne and Albatros, as well as to HMS Espiègle and Dart on the English side, Hernsheim & Co OHG was able to get a coal supply contract with the Imperial Navy signed by the Hamburg parent company Robertson & Hernsheim (see below) with the Royal British Navy and extend the former repeatedly until 1914.
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