Vautour

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Vautour (French for "vulture") may refer to:

• Abrial A-2 Vautour, a single-seat French glider aircraft of 1925
• Sud Aviation Vautour, a French-made bomber, interceptor, and attack aircraft of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s used by the French and Israeli air forces
• Vautour (horse), Irish-trained racehorse
• Vautour was a privateer that HMS Dryad after a six-hour chase. Vautour was armed with seven 4-pounder guns and two 12-pounder carronades. She was of 130 tons burthen, with a crew of 78 men. She had sailed from Morlaiz on 13 October and not taken anything.^[1]
• Vautour, a privateer launched in 1797 at Nantes that the British Royal Navy captured in 1800, that became the whaler Vulture, and that a Spanish privateer captured in 1809.
• HMS Vautour (1810) an 18-gun brig-sloop, captured 1809, commissioned in the Royal Navy 1810 and sunk 1813

Two privateers named Vautour appear a list of 78 Corsairs commissioned in Boulogne during the period 1793-1814, with Captains Durand and Captain Orielle.^[2]

People with the surname

• Angela Vautour (born 1960), Canadian politician
• J. R. Vautour, Canadian country singer
• Yvon Vautour (born 1956), Canadian ice hockey player

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