HMS_Duchess_of_Cumberland

HMS<i> Duchess of Cumberland</i>

HMS Duchess of Cumberland

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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

  1. [N 1]
    This Congress was almost surely not the Congress involved in the capture of HMS Savage.

Citations

  1. [1]
    Maclay (1900), p.125.
  2. [2]
    "No. 12234". The London Gazette. 16 October 1781. p. 1.
  3. [3]
    Hepper (1994), p.65.

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