HMS Necker was the armed transport Necker or Neker that HMS Hannibal captured off the Cape of Good Hope on 25 October 1781. Hannibal encountered the French frigate Bellone, escorting the transports Neker and Sévère. She captured the transports and brought them to Saint Helena.[3] Necker may have been a flute that served the French navy from 1779 to 1781, but for which there is no information other than her existence.[4]
| History | |
|---|---|
 France | |
| Name | Necker |
| Namesake | Jacques Necker |
| In service | 1779 |
| Captured | October 1781 |
 Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Necker |
| Acquired | October 1781 by capture |
| Fate | Lost, presumed foundered December 1781 |
| General characteristics | |
| Notes | Several sources confuse this Necker with the French privateer Necker that an armed whaler captured early in 1781 in the North Sea. There is also the possibility that both of these have been conflated with a third Necker, of about 600 tons burthen, that foundered in December 1789 at Malacca.[1][2] |
Hannibal took Necker to Saint Helena. There Commander Charles Carpenter commissioned Necker as a sixth rate, with a crew drawn from Hannibal. She was sent to the East Indies to augment the British naval forces there.[5][6]
She disappeared, presumed foundered, circa December 1781 on her way from Saint Helena to the East Indies.[5]
See also edit
Citations edit
- ^ Demerliac (1996), p. 175, No.1689.
- ^ Naval Chronicle, Vol. 15, p.464.
- ^ Cunat (1852), p. 99.
- ^ Roche (2005), p. 492.
- ^ a b Hepper (1994), p. 66.
- ^ Winfield (2007), p. 242.
References edit
- Cunat, Charles (1852). Histoire du Bailli de Suffren. Rennes: A. Marteville et Lefas. p. 447.
- Demerliac, Alain (1996). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 9782906381230. OCLC 468324725.
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3. OCLC 622348295.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1844157006.