Juno

Juno was launched at Hull in 1793 as a West Indiaman. French privateers once detained her and once captured her, but the Royal Navy recaptured her. She made one voyage as a whaler 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.