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Ships Commanded By Jack Aubrey

During the series of novels, Jack Aubrey commands a succession of many different vessels. Most of them are ships of the Royal Navy, prefixed HMS. On one occasion he commands an Honourable East India Company ship, and for some time Surprise is a hired vessel working for the Royal Navy (HMHV), and the Franklin is a privateer captured by Jack Aubrey, and used for a brief time, before he sells it. Nutmeg of Consolation's status is undefined, as she belongs to Stamford Raffles, the Governor of Batavia.

Ship	Rate	Guns	Main armament	Book	Notional Year	End of commission	Fictional?
HM Sloop Sophie	Brig-Sloop	14	4 lb	Master and Commander	1800	Captured	= HM Sloop Speedy
HM Sloop Polychrest	Sloop	24	32 lb carronades	Post Captain	1803	Sunk (structural failure)	Yes
HMS Lively	5th	38	18 lb	Post Captain	1804	Temporary command	No
HMS Surprise	6th	28	12 lb	HMS Surprise	1805	Paid off	No
HMS Boadicea	5th	38	18 lb	The Mauritius Command	1809	Transferred to Raisonnable	No
HMS Raisonnable	3rd	64	24 lb	The Mauritius Command	1809	Monsoon season; transferred back to Boadicea	No
HMS Leopard	4th	50	24 lb	Desolation Island	1811	Converted to transport	No
HM Sloop Ariel	Sloop	16	6 lb	The Surgeon's Mate	1813	Sunk after striking reef	No
HMS Worcester	3rd	74	32 lb	The Ionian Mission	1813	Converted to shear hulk following storm damage	Yes
HMS Surprise	6th	28	12 lb	The Ionian Mission	1813	Temporary command	No
HEICS Niobe			9 lb	Treason's Harbour	1813	Temporary command	Yes
HMS Surprise	6th	28	12 lb	The Far Side of the World	1813	Paid off, then sold out of service	No
HMS Diane	5th	32	18 lb	The Thirteen Gun Salute	1813	Grounded on a reef, then destroyed by storm	Yes
Nutmeg of Consolation	6th	20	32 lb carronades	The Nutmeg of Consolation	1813	Returned to governor, transferred to Surprise	Yes
HMHV Surprise	6th	28	12 lb	Clarissa Oakes	1813	Transferred himself to Franklin	No
Privateer Franklin		22	24 lb carronades	The Wine Dark Sea	1813	Transferred himself back to the Surprise	Yes
HMS Bellona	3rd	74	32 lb	The Commodore The Yellow Admiral	1813	Paid off	No
HMS Pomone	5th	38	18 lb	The Hundred Days	1815	Transferred to HMS Surprise	No
HMS Surprise	6th	28	12 lb	The Hundred Days	1815	Damaged in collision, then sent in for repairs	No
HMHV Surprise	6th	28	12 lb	Blue at the Mizzen	1815	Promoted: raised Flag on HMS Suffolk	No
HMS Suffolk	3rd	74	32 lb	The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey	1817		was sold in 1816

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