:^D When I read the first of the articles out there on the www, I had to then go out and look up the term HMB. HMS is obviously familiar..
According to Wiki (I know ...) the Navy struck her off the list and she fell under private ownership as the Lord Sandwich. She was hired by the RN during the Revolutionary War as a troop transport. So, if she was not a commissioned Royal Navy ship, what is Britain’s claim?