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Musquito-class floating battery

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in May 1795 under Lieutenant William McCarthy. A gale blew her out of the anchorage at the St Marcou islands and wrecked her on the French coast on 20 June 1795, with the loss of five lives, including McCarthy.
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specifically to serve with his squadron in French coastal waters. Both were named and ordered under Admiralty Order 26 May 1794.
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were parallel and forward and the third was aft. (The Shank keels were the invention of naval architect Captain
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Smith had the two vessels built with tapered, flat-bottomed
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British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859
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Index

Royal Navy
Firm class
Spanker class
Floating battery
bm
schooner
QD
carronades
Royal Navy
floating batteries
Sir Sidney Smith
hulls
keels
John Schank
Deptford Dockyard
St Marcou
Jersey
commissioned
Sandfly
Battle of the Îles Saint-Marcouf
paid off
broken up




Winfield (2008)
Hepper (1994)
"NMM, vessel ID 371737"
National Maritime Museum

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