Two vessels of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Germaine or Germain, in honour of
Lord Germain:[1]
HM armed ship Germaine, of 14 guns, was a mercantile vessel that Governor
Patrick Tonyn purchased in April 1778 for the East Florida Provincial Navy and renamed.[1] He disbanded the provincial navy in 1779 and the Royal Navy commissioned her in 1779 under Lieutenant John Mowbray. The French captured her in 1781; her ultimate fate is currently unknown.[2]
HMS Germaine (1781) was the American mercantile
brig-sloopAmericain captured in 1781, taken into service as HMS Germaine, and sold in March 1784.[3]
Buker, George E.; Martin, Richard Apley (1979). "Governor Tonyn's Brown-Water Navy: East Florida during the American Revolution, 1775-1778". Florida Historical Quarterly. 58 (1): 58–71.
Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre.
ISBN9782906381230.
OCLC468324725.
Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.
ISBN978-1844157006.
List of ships with the same or similar names
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
Two vessels of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Germaine or Germain, in honour of
Lord Germain:[1]
HM armed ship Germaine, of 14 guns, was a mercantile vessel that Governor
Patrick Tonyn purchased in April 1778 for the East Florida Provincial Navy and renamed.[1] He disbanded the provincial navy in 1779 and the Royal Navy commissioned her in 1779 under Lieutenant John Mowbray. The French captured her in 1781; her ultimate fate is currently unknown.[2]
HMS Germaine (1781) was the American mercantile
brig-sloopAmericain captured in 1781, taken into service as HMS Germaine, and sold in March 1784.[3]
Buker, George E.; Martin, Richard Apley (1979). "Governor Tonyn's Brown-Water Navy: East Florida during the American Revolution, 1775-1778". Florida Historical Quarterly. 58 (1): 58–71.
Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre.
ISBN9782906381230.
OCLC468324725.
Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.
ISBN978-1844157006.
List of ships with the same or similar names
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.