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90: 33: 52: 702: 660:"Medals of the British navy and how they were won : with a list of those officers, who for their gallant conduct were granted honorary swords and plate by the Committee of the Patriotic Fund" 421:. She was a lugger commissioned at Boulogne in 1809, of 70 tons ("of load"), 120-ton displacement, 20.4-metre long (18.0 at the keel), 5.25 m beam and 2.44 m draft. 433:
was one of six privateers that Maxwell captured between May 1809 and February 1810. For this productivity Maxwell received promotion to
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on 10 December 1809. She was armed with 14 guns, had a crew of 60 men and was three months old. Commander John Maxwell, captain of
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with clasp "Royalist May & June 1810". Long points out that the dates given on the official list are wrong.
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served without distinction in Home Waters for slightly more than three years before being sold in 1814.
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was offered for sale in August 1814. She was sold at Chatham for £280 on 1 September 1814.
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Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy
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in June 1810. In 1847 the Admiralty rewarded the surviving claimants from
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For several prior years Cannadey had served as the captain of the
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Index

HMS Defender

French Navy Ensign
Royal Navy Ensign
bm
Lugger
carronades
French
privateer
lugger
Royalist
Boulogne
Royal Navy
Lieutenant
The Downs
Decoy
post-captain
Naval General Service Medal
hired armed
Black Joke


Demerliac (2003)




Winfield (2008)
"No. 16323"
The London Gazette

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