HMS Duchess of Cumberland
Two vessels that served the Royal Navy have been named Duchess of Cumberland:
- HMS Duchess of Cumberland (1781) was the American privateer Congress, of Beverley, Massachusetts,.[1] Congress was armed with eighteen 9-pounders guns, and had a crew of 120 men. HMS Oiseaux captured her at some point between 16 June and 2 July 1781.[2][Note 1] The Royal Navy took Congress in as the 16-gun sloop HMS Duchess of Cumberland, under Commander Edward Marsh. Duchess of Cumberland was wrecked on 22 September 1781 on Cape St. Mary's during a heavy fog. She had been escorting a convoy from Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador.[3]
- His Majesty's hired armed cutter Duchess of Cumberland.
Footnotes
- Notes
- ↑ This Congress was almost surely not the Congress involved in the capture of HMS Savage.
- Citations
- ↑ Maclay (1900), p.125.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 12234. p. 1. 16 October 1781.
- ↑ Hepper (1994), p.65.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- Maclay, Edgar S. (1900). A history of American privateers. Sampson, Low, Marston & co.