HMS Defender (1809)

Defender
History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameBon Marcel
Commissioned1809[1]
Captured10 December 1809
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Defender
Acquired1809 by capture
CommissionedJanuary 1811
FateSold 1814
General characteristics [2]
Tons burthen1392394 (bm)
Length
  • 65 ft 0+12 in (19.8 m) (overall
  • 54 ft 2+12 in (16.5 m) (keel)
Beam17 ft 2+12 in (5.2 m)
Depth of hold7 ft 4 in (2.2 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planLugger
Complement40
Armament8 × 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.

  1. ^ Demerliac (2003), p. 247, No.1786.
  2. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 366.