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Builder Perry and Co. ?

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Curious on the precise source of the builder being Perry and Co. This sentence isn't cited, but many useful references (not online) were consulted for the page it seems. I ask because this ref[1] suggests Baker and Co. of Liverpool were commissioned to build a ship for the British navy known as Ariel, which is described as "a Sloop of 16 guns." That is roughly in-line with the HMS Ariel here in size and description. There's an online version of ref[1] avaialable here: [2] and the reference to a naval Ariel is present on page 8 of the source (i.e. not page 8 of the pdf). Is there a formal registry of the ships' builders to reference? Or is this two second-hand accounts at odds with one another?

Cheers -- Crawdaunt (talk) 22:59, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. Apparently in the HMS Ariel disambiguation page there is a description of a 1781 16-gun sloop. -- Crawdaunt (talk) 23:02, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]