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HMS Marianne

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Four vessels have served the British Royal Navy under the name Marianne, though it is not clear that all were commissioned.

Towing the Marianne, a water-logged barque registered in Falmouth, into Queenstown Harbour, Illustrated Times 1859
  • Marianne was a storeship purchased in 1788 and listed until 1793.
  • Marianne was the French transport Marianne of 12 guns. The French Navy acquired her in 1798 and the squadron of Commodore Sir Sidney Smith captured her off Syria on 1 March 1799, The French recaptured her in March, but the British recaptured her in November. She was sold in September 1801.[1]
  • Marianne was a Spanish 10-gun schooner that HMS Swift captured in 1805 and used as a ship's tender. She was still listed in 1806.[2]
  • Marianne was a slave ship of 460 tons (bm), that HMS Styx and Jasper captured on 22 March 1858,[3] and that the Navy purchased in 1859. From 1860 she served at Jamaica as a receiving ship and lazaretto. In February 1864 she was ordered broken up; she was broken up in 1867.

Citations

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  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p.337.
  2. ^ Colledge & Wardlow (2006), p.228.
  3. ^ "No. 22395". The London Gazette. 15 June 1860. p. 2272.

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