HMS Cyane

Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name, HMS Cyane.

• HMS Cyane was an 18-gun sloop built in 1796 that the French captured in May 1805 and that the British recaptured in October,^[1] when she was renamed HMS Cerf; she was sold in 1809.
• HMS Cyane was a Banterer Class Sixth Rate Post-ship built in 1806 and captured by the USS Constitution in 1815; she served in the US Navy thereafter as the USS Cyane, and was broken up in 1836.

Citations and references

Citations

1. The London Gazette: no. 15870. p. 1538. 7 December 1805.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.