Indefatigable's capture record provides operational evidence for the conversion. Her prizes included French merchantmen, privateers, Spanish vessels, and the frigate Virginie, while she also helped destroy the French 74 Droits de l'Homme. Packet ships and recaptured British merchantmen show that her work disrupted communications and restored friendly commerce as well as taking prizes. Depending on how shared credit and disruption are counted, she participated in roughly ninety-seven captures or interruptions, about fifty-one under Edward Pellew. The record made the razee militarily useful and exceptionally profitable to her captain and crew.
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Indefatigable's prize-taking career
A rapid sequence of merchantmen, privateers, frigates, and a ship of the line shows how Indefatigable turned razee firepower and Pellew's aggression into sustained commerce warfare.