"It appears that the Cyane built by Bass at Topsham in 1806 was originally named Columbine: It is described as a sixth rate (32 guns or less), so was one of the Royal Navy's smallest class of warship. Being a frigate, it had three masts with square sails. There appears to be some doubt about whether the Cyane was built in Topsham or Lympstone because the well-respected authority, Michael Oppenheim, in his book "The Maritime History of Devon" (Exeter University 1968 although written in 1908) states that the Cyane was built in Lympstone.
This is pure conjecture but 1806, the year the Cyane was built, was the year that the short-lived partnership of John Bass and John Bishop in Tilney Rising's old yard at the end of The Strand, Topsham was dissolved, so perhaps the ship could have spent time in both yards, e.g. built at Topsham and fitted out at Lympstone.
At link there is an account of an action on 24/27 June 1809 near Naples in the Mediterranean involving a Royal Navy ship called the Cyane described as a "22-gun ship". It was commanded by Captain Thomas Staines who lost his left arm in the action. The damage to the ship was so great that "the Cyane was immediately sent to England to be refitted":
There are a considerable number of accounts on the WWW which make reference to the ship HMS Cyane, in connection with her capture, 20 February 1815, along with HMS Levant by the USS Constitution during the War of 1812 (actually just after peace had been agreed because of the slowness of communications at the time!). The Cyane suffered serious damage and 6 dead and 29 wounded before Captain Gordon Falcon surrendered. After her capture, HMS Cyane became the USS Cyane, being broken up sometime after 1835…"
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