Marauder

HMS Marauder - 56-gun naval fourth-rate ship-o'-the-line, Reason-class
Captain: Lewis McLain

Commissioned: January 5th, 1721

Stationed: Orleans, for local patrols and rapid response to port battles.

Custom-built and rigged to Captain McLain's specifications, the Marauder is an outstanding specimen of the fourth-rate class. No slow tub, this; the Marauder's hull design and rigging give her a top speed of over twenty knots and handling more like a heavy frigate than a ship-o'-the-line. This makes her a keen asset in pitched line fights and port battles. She has the speed to keep up with the screening frigates as well as the resilient armor protection and crushing firepower to go broadside-to-broadside with ships well above her rating.

Major Actions
Action - 1721 - January 5 - A Spot of Bad Luck at Jaqueme: McLain and the Marauder escaped a hostile situation that developed near Jaqueme, but Captain Andrew Curran lost his Reason-class.

Picture Gallery
The Marauder charges into a French fleet.

The Marauder opens up a broadside on some deserving frog.

Modern Namesake
All of Captain McLain's commands are named in part after modern combat aircraft.

The B-26 Marauder was a medium-range twin-engine bomber from WWII, used extensively on the European front by the RAF and in all theaters of the war by the USAAF. Dispite a reputation for being accident prone and earning the nickname of "Widowmaker," later variants of the Marauder had the best combat-loss record of any bomber used in the war and established themselves as the chief bombardment weapon on the western front, performing thousands of close-support and precision strike sorties between D-Day and V-E-Day.