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HMS Cyane

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2022
Entity authorityQ5632042 ↗
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Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name, HMS Cyane.

HMS Cyane (1796) was an 18-gun sloop built in 1796 that the French captured in May 1805 and that the British recaptured in October, when she was renamed HMS Cerf; sold in 1809. She appeared in some records as Cayenne.

HMS Cyane (1806) was a Banterer-class post ship built in 1806 and captured in 1815; she served in the US Navy thereafter and was broken up in 1836.

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This entry incorporates text from “HMS Cyane” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.