Thanks Paul In the area I am researching, two small guns were recovered back in the 70s this has me looking around to see who was carrying such hard ware. I have a report of a merchant vessel 1782 wrecked 10 miles up the coast, on her way home from Jamaica she was carrying 2 six-pounder carriage guns. But just today I found a news paper reference to a previously unknown vessel, this was a 18 Gun French Privateer supposedly foundered near my area of interest also in 1782. I had also forgotten that the early Lloyd's Registers listed the guns carried by vessels, so I now have a lot of new material to play with. Mick O'Rourke www.irishshipwrecks.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Benyon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [MAR] Armed Merchant Vessels Hi Mick For vessels going foreign i.e. Med. W. Indies, E. Indies and Far East I would suggest that merchant vessels were likely to receive attention from various types of piratical vessels.