Thank you and yes the figures on French victories make stark reading, but perhaps unsurprising considering the upheaval caused to the French navy by the Revolution and the loss of many competent officers; with an attempt by the French authorities to replicate the success of the army on land by placing reliance on the revolutionary enthusiasm and zeal of inexperienced crews and commanders up against very experienced and competent British crews fighting to protect hearth and home from invasion.
This difference in approach is reflected in one of the successful French actions when the Baionnaise of just 28 guns, and realising they were losing the gunnery and sailing part of the battle, smashed their bowsprit over the poop of the 32 gun Ambuscade and used their larger crew with a large contingent of soldiers aboard to overwhelm the British ship in a boarding action, with Ambuscade weak in numbers having detached a prize crew on a previous capture.