The Marshal Bennett was a barque launched in Liverpool in 1820.[1] It was employed in voyages in different parts of the world for many years, up to c.1860. The ship took its name from the Belize merchant Marshall Bennett (no fixed spelling), who was not the owner, the naming being honorific;[1] and gave it to the Marshall Bennett Islands, now part of Papua New Guinea, when in 1836 the barque's whaler captain Robert L. Hunter adopted for the island group the name of his vessel.[2]