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Orénoque (1781 ship)

Orénoque by one account was a French privateer sloop commissioned in French Guyana in 1781. Another account has her as a Dutch merchant vessel purchased into service. If so, she may have been one of the vessels that some British privateers captured during the raid on Essquinbo and Demerara in late February 1781. The French captured her in 1782 when they captured Demerara and disposed of her in 1784 or so.