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HMS Mermaid (1798)

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{{EngvarB|date=January 2017}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}{{otherships|HMS Mermaid}}HMS Mermaid was a gunvessel purchased in Honduras in 1798 for local use.^[1] She was sloop-rigged, armed with one long 9-pounder gun and had a crew of 25 men from the "Colonial Troops".^[2]^[2]

She served in defense of the British colonists at Honduras and participated in the repulse of the Spanish expedition at the Battle of St. George's Caye in September 1798.^[3] In 1800, after the Spanish threat had passed, she was sold.^[1]

It is arguable that she deserves the designation "HMS" as Mermaid was never commissioned into the Royal Navy, and her officers and crew were civilians. Even in the case of "His Majesty's hired armed vessels", the Navy provided the captain.

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1. ^¹Colledge and Warlow (2006), p257.
2. ^James (1837), Vol. 2, p.249.
3. ^¹{{London Gazette|issue=15100|page=69|date=19 January 1799}}

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{{cite book| last = James| first = William| authorlink = William James (naval historian)| year = 1837| title = The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV.| publisher = R. Bentley}}

2 : Gunvessels of the Royal Navy|1798 ships

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