Several ships have borne the name ''Black Joke'', after an English song of the same name.

Slave ship

* , made three voyages as a

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between 1764 and 1767.

Naval vessels

* , the captured

''Henriquetta'', commissioned in 1827, was employed in suppressing the

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and deliberately burnt as no longer serviceable in 1832 on orders from

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. * was a hired armed cutter of ten 6-pounder guns and tons ( bm) that served from 12 January 1795 to 19 October 1801. In 1799 she was renamed ''Suworow'' (or ''Suwarrow'' or ''Soworrow''). Reportedly she burned in 1802. * was a hired armed

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of ten 12-pounder carronades and tons (bm) that entered naval service on 22 May 1808.Winfield (2008), p.394. On 1 July 1810 the French captured ''Black Joke'' in the Channel. These two hired vessels may have been the same. In his narrative of his voyages in the Mediterranean between 1810 and 1814, Charles Robert Cockerell reports that the lugger was an old vessel, having been at the Battle of Camperdown, which is consistent with the earliest mentions of the cutter.

Other ships

* ''Burla Negra'' ("Black Joke") was the ship of the pirate

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. * "Black Joke" was also a nickname for the English privateer ''

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,'' that operated during the

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, capturing 50 American vessels. *Furthermore, there was a lugger ''Black Joke'' that received a letter of marque on 5 May 1801. She was of 25 tons burthen, had two 2-pounder guns and was under the command of Captain Phillip Dupont."Register of Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815"; p.53

Citations and references

Citations

References

*Cockerell, Charles Robert (1903) ''Travels in southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817. The journal of C.R. Cockerell''. (London, New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.). * {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Black Joke'' (ship) Ship names