HMS Musette

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Musette, 1796
Type: 6th rate ; sloop ; Armament 24
Taken from the French 21 Dec 1796 ;
Disposal date or year : 1806
Notes:

1 Jan 1799 Receiving Ship at Plymouth.

11 Oct 1803 orders have been received for the Musette to be taken out of ordinary and to be rigged with jury masts and stationed off the River Yealm, East of the Sound, which with the two redoubts above the entrance to the river should provide an adequate defence for the river.

16 Oct 1803 departed Plymouth, from the Lower Moorings, under jury masts, for the entrance to the Yealm River, where she is to be moored as a guardship.

May 1805 River Yealm ; Floating Battery.