Jean-Joseph Hubert (;
Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, 17 December 1765 – off
Cádiz
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, 25 October 1805
[Quintin, p.175]) was a French Navy officer and captain.
Career
Hubert joined the French Royal Navy as a volunteer on 27 September 1780, and served on
''Languedoc'' during the
American War of Independence
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. On 5 October 1787, he was promoted to sub-Lieutenant.
During the
French Revolution, Hubert was promoted to Ensign on 12 January 1792 and served on
''Vengeur'' until she ran aground and was lost off Ajaccio. He was then given command of the xebec ''Jacobin'' (a Mediterranean trading vessel). Promoted to Lieutenant on 10 September 1794, he was appointed on 21 October to captain the frigate
''Boudeuse'', and transferred to the frigate
''Alceste'' on 31 March 1795.
On 4 May 1795, Hubert was promoted to captain. Still captaining ''Alceste'', he took part in the
Battle of Hyères Islands
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, where he battled several British ships before rescuing
''Alcide''
On 23 February, Hubert transferred to the frigate
''Junon''. He captained the 80-gun
''Guillaume Tell'' from 10 May 1797, and in August 1798 he successively commanded the 64-gun
''Banel'' and her sister-ship
''Frontin''.
In 1799, Hubert was appointed to the frigate
''Carmagnole''[Troude, vol.3, p.190] and he took part in the
action of 8 July 1800. In November, ''Carmagnole'' ran aground by a storm at
Vlissingen
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and was so wrecked that she was deleted on the spot.
[
On 9 March 1801, Hubert took command of the frigate ''Créole'', and in July he was appointed to the 74-gun ''Swiftsure''.]Legion of Honour
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. On 19 July 1804, Hubert took command of the 80-gun ''Indomptable'',Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the Royal Navy and a combined fleet of the French Navy, French and Spanish Navy, Spanish navies during the War of the Third Coalition. As part of Na ...
, where he was wounded. ''Indomptable'' exchanged broadsides with HMS ''Belleisle'' before tacking to the South-East, firing on ''Revenge'', ''Dreadnought'' and ''Thunderer'', before observing Gravina's signals and sailing to Cadiz.
Four days later, on the 25th, ''Indomptable'' rescued survivors of the wreck of ''Bucentaure'' off Cadiz and anchored near Rota. During the night, her cables broke and she was thrown on the shore, where she was wrecked with only 150 survivors out of 1200 men. Hubert drowned.[Fond Marine, p.331]
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* Fonds Marine. Campagnes (opérations; divisions et stations navales; missions diverses). Inventaire de la sous-série Marine BB4. Tome deuxième : BB4 1 à 482 (1790-1826
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1765 births
1805 deaths
French Navy officers
French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars
French naval commanders of the Napoleonic Wars