''Juno'' was launched at Hull in 1793 as a

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. French privateers once detained her and once captured her, but the

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recaptured her. She made one voyage as a

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in the Southern Whale Fishery, and then participated as a transport in a naval expedition. She then disappears from readily accessible records. In 1809 she may have been captured off Africa, or condemned at the Cape of Good Hope and broken up.

Career

Although ''Juno'' was launched in 1793, she did not appear in ''Lloyd's Register'' until 1796. On 17 August 1995 three French privateers of 18, 16, and 14 guns, stopped ''Juno'', Baxter, master, 25 leagues west of the Naze of Norway. She had been sailing from Petersburg to Bristol and after they released her she arrived at Peterhead with some delay. ''Lloyd's List'' reported on 28 May 1799 that ''Juno'', Watkins, master, had been captured. However, the frigate had recaptured her and sent her into Martinico. ''

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'' for 1802 showed ''Juno'' with Blackburn as master and owner, and trade London–Grenada. It also showed her master as changing to Richardson and her trade to London-Southern Fishery.''Lloyd's Register'' (1802), Seq.№J992.
/ref> Captain Richardson sailed from London on 13 July 1802, bound for the Pacific. ''Juno'' was reported to have been in the Pacific in November 1803, at the Galapagos Islands in January 1804, and off the coast of Peru in April. She returned to London on 21 March 1805. ''Juno'' appears to have participated as a victualer in the British invasion of the Dutch Cape Colony (1805-1806). After the invasion, the victualer ''Juno'', of 239 tons (bm), sailed on 11 March 1796 to

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to load with timber.

Fate

''Lloyd's Register'' and the ''Register of Shipping'' continued to carry ''Juno'' with Richardson, master, Blackburn, owner, and trade London–Southern Fishery, until 1809. However, she may have been the brig ''Juno'' that the French privateer ''Hirondelle'' captured as ''Juno'' was coming from Prince's Island in 1809 and took into Cherbourg. ''

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'' reported the capture in May 1809. Alternatively, she may have been the whaler ''Juno'', Goodspeed, master, that ''Lloyd's List'' reported in August 1809 had been condemned at the Cape of Good Hope and broken up.

Citations

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