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Career 
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| Name | Pabella |
| Namesake | Pabella |
| Builder | Sint-Hendrikstad shipyards |
| Laid down | 1748 |
| Launched | 1748 |
| Homeport | Grijzestad |
| Honours and awards | Participated in: Franco-Brunanter War Napoleonic Wars |
| Fate | Decommissioned in 1871 |
| General characterstics | |
| Armament | 44 18-pounder canons |
Pabella was a large three-mast ship in the Brunanter Royal Navy, which was built in 1748. She was the largest ship in the navy at the time, along with sister ship Sint-Ines, built from 1750-1751.
History[]
Pabella was built in 1748 in Sint-Hendrikstad and was the largest ship ever built by the shipyards there. The ship cost some 510,000 thalers to build (about 25,000 gold escudos), then an extremely massive sum. The state borrowed money from the Murais family in order to fund the ship and later her sister Sint-Ines, totaling about 200,000 thalers.
Pabella first saw action during the Franco-Brunanter War in 1757. She was involved in the Siege of Grijzestad, supplying the town during the initial phases and later attacking the French troops besieging her. In 1758, she fought the largest all-naval battle near Roodstad, engaging the Libertan fleet. Pabella led the formation of four Brunanter ships against seven Libertan ones and was able to sink and cripple two, but was unable to prevent the crippling of her sister ship Sint-Ines.
After 1759, the ship saw no action until the Napoleonic Wars, when she was used to transport troops under the command of King Ambroos I to continental Europe in 1814 and 1815. She had been refurbished in 1806.
By the 1830s, she was becoming expensive to operate such large ships and after 1833, Sint-Ines was docked at the Roodstad port for some time. The ship was used for training purposes until 1871, when she was damaged in a fire and it was decided to get rid of her.
In 1993, a reproduction model of the ship was built in Sint-Hendrikstad, where she can be visited today.