Ann

There were two, and possibly three, vessels named His Majesty's hired armed brig Ann (or Anne) that served the British Royal Navy. The first participated in an engagement in 1807 that would earn her crew the Naval General Service Medal. She is sometimes referred to in sources as the hired armed cutter Ann or the hired armed brig Anne. Little or nothing is known of the second and third hired armed brigs Ann or Anne. First hired armed brig Ann The first hired armed brig Ann served the Royal Navy from 21 May 1804 to 28 July 1809. She was of 120 tons (bm) and carried ten 12-pounder carronades. Prize taking In June 1804 Ann was under the command of Lieutenant John Sherriff. Later that year she was in company with when Cruizer captured the French privateer Contre Amiral Magon on 16 October 1804. The gun-brig and the hired armed cutter were also in company. The French brig was under the command of Captain Blauckman, was newly built and on her first cruise. She was pierced for 18 guns but mounted 17, fourteen 6-pounder guns, two 18-pounder carronades, and one 9-pounder gun. Her crew of 84 men consisted of Frenchmen, Danes, Swedes, and Americans. She had been out from Dunkirk 18 days and had captured several vessels: The ship Belisarius, of Newcastle, commanded by Matthew Hunter, on 3 October, off Tynemouth The brig Scipio, commanded by Richard Robertson; The Content's Increase, commanded by George Bell. The last two had cargoes of coal and the privateer had sent them straight into Dunkirk. A Royal Navy brig had recaptured Belisarius within two hours of her capture. The masters of all three British vessels, together with their crews, some 20 men in all, were on Contre Amiral Magon at the time of her capture and Cruizer took them on board. Then on 31 March 1805 Ann was again in company with Bold when they captured Neptune. On 5 June Ann and others captured Dogter Catharina. Ann was again in company with Cruizer on 2 August 1805 when they captured Frederick. Then on 22 August 1805 they captured Susannah Margaretha.