HMS Defender (1809)

Defender
History
France
Name	Bon Marcel
Commissioned	1809[1]
Captured	10 December 1809
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Defender
Acquired	1809 by capture
Commissioned	January 1811
Fate	Sold 1814
General characteristics [2]
Tons burthen	13923⁄94 (bm)
Length	65 ft 0+1⁄2 in (19.8 m) (overall 54 ft 2+1⁄2 in (16.5 m) (keel)
Beam	17 ft 2+1⁄2 in (5.2 m)
Depth of hold	7 ft 4 in (2.2 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Lugger
Complement	40
Armament	8 × 12-pounder carronades

HMS Defender was the French privateer lugger Bon Marcel (Beau Marseilles in British records), that Royalist captured in 1809. Defender served without distinction in Home Waters for slightly more than three years before being sold in 1814.