Pewter ale jug said to have been owned by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), naval officer and novelist, but with bogus inscriptions and marks.

Large pewter jug with a pronounced lip, within which is a strainer of uneven pierced holes. The jug has a small foot, some decoration on the handle and lines around the upper body. It is inscribed around the belly of the jug in large double wrigglework lettering: 'CAPT. F. MARRYAT H.M.S.ARIADNE'.

There are George IV verification marks below the rim, and on the base a spurious maker's mark of the Duncombe family and its successors, and recent engraved monogram of the donor.

Marryat was appointed to HMS 'Ariadne' (launched 1816) in November 1828 and commanded her until November 1830. In 1948 the jug was donated to S.S. 'Ariadne', a vessel of the Finland Steamship Co. Ltd. of Helsinki by the Company's Agent in Copenhagen. It was placed in the smoking room of S.S.'Ariadne' and admired by her passengers sailing across the Baltic. When the ship was about to be broken up in 1968, the Company donated the jug to the NMM.

A very similar Marryat jug came up for sale in 2006, and the pewter marks and inscriptions on these jugs are now believed to date from the 20th century.