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HMS Defender (1804)
Encyclopedia
The second HMS Defender was a 12-gun Archer-class gun-brig built in Chester
Chester
Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the...
in 1804 and employed in the English Channel
English Channel
The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...
. On 14 December 1809, she was wrecked near Folkestone
Folkestone
Folkestone is the principal town in the Shepway District of Kent, England. Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to the Continent as a landing place and trading port. The coming of the railways, the building of a ferry port, and its...
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Commanding officers
- August 1804, Lieutenant George Hayes
- November 1804, Lieutenant John George Nops
- 1806, Lieutenant George Plowman
- February 1809, Lieutenant Frederick William Burgoyne