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There were two, and possibly three, hired armed brigs that shared the name ''Ann'' (or ''Anne''). The first participated in an engagement in 1807 that would earn her crew the Naval General Service Medal. She is sometimes referred to in sources as the hired armed cutter ''Ann'' or the hired armed brig ''Anne''. Little or nothing is known of the second and third hired armed brigs ''Ann'' or ''Anne''. ==First hired armed brig ''Ann''== The first hired armed brig ''Ann'' served the Royal Navy from 21 May 1804 to 28 July 1809. She was of 102 56/94 tons burthen and was armed with ten 12-pounder carronades.〔Winfield (2008), p.392.〕 ===Prize taking=== In June 1804 ''Ann'' was under the command of Lieutenant John Sherriff.〔 Later that year she was in company with when ''Cruizer'' captured the French privateer ''Contre Amiral Magon'' on 16 October 1804. The gun-brig and the hired armed cutter ''Florence'' were also in company. The French brig was under the command of Captain Blauckman, was newly built and on her first cruise. She was pierced for 18 guns but mounted 17, fourteen 6-pounder guns, two 18-pounder carronades, and one 9-pounder gun. Her crew of 84 men consisted of Frenchmen, Danes, Swedes, and Americans. She had been out from Dunkirk 18 days and had captured several vessels: *The ship ''Belisarius'', of Newcastle, commanded by Matthew Hunter, on 3 October, off Tynemouth *The brig ''Scipio'', commanded by Richard Robertson; *The ''Content's Increase'', commanded by George Bell. The last two had cargoes of coal and the privateer had sent them straight into Dunkirk. A British naval brig had recaptured ''Belisarius'' within two hours of her capture. The masters of all three British vessels, together with their crews, some 20 men in all, were on ''Contre Amiral Magon'' at the time of her capture and ''Cruizer'' took them on board. Then on 31 March 1805 ''Ann'' was in company with ''Bold'' when they captured the ''Neptune''.〔 On 5 June ''Ann'' and others captured the ''Dogter Catharina''.〔 ''Ann'' was again in company with ''Cruizer'' on 2 August 1805 when they captured the ''Frederick''. Then on 22 August 1805 they captured the ''Susannah Margaretha''. 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「Hired armed brig Ann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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