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} |} HMS ''Defender'' was the French privateer lugger ''Beau Marseille'' that captured in 1809. ''Defender'' served without distinction in Home Waters for slightly more than three years before being sold in 1814. ==Career== ''Royalist'' captured ''Beau Marseille'' 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 ''Royalist'', described her as "a very beautiful vessel" and "one of the fastest sailers out of Boulogne."〔''Beau Marseilles'' was one of six privateers that Maxwell captured between May 1809 and February 1810. For this productivity Maxwell received promotion to post-captain in June 1810.(Long 1895, p.174.) In 1847 the Admiralty rewarded the surviving claimants from ''Royalist'' the Naval General Service Medal'' with clasp "Royalist May & June 1810". Long points out that the dates given on the official list are wrong.〕 The Royal Navy took ''Beau Marseille'' into service as ''Defender''. From 15 February to 16 March 1811 she underwent fitting out at Sheerness.〔 In January 1811 Lieutenant Moses Cannadey RN commissioned her for The Downs.〔〔For several prior years Cannadey had served as the captain of the hired armed lugger ''Black Joke'', which the French captured in the Mediterranean in 1810.〕 On 24 June 1813 ''Defender'' captured the ''Hope''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Defender (1809)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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