‘A’ class submarines. 165 tons (first 4), 180 (others), 100 × 11.5ft (1st 4), 94 × 12ft (others), 2-TT.
A.1 (ordered as H.6) Vickers 9.7.1902. Sunk in collision SS Berwick Castle 18.3.1904, raised
4.1904. Sunk 8.1911 as a target.
A.2 Vickers 16.4.1903. Wrecked 1.1920 while on sale list; wreck sold 22.10.25 J. H. Pounds, Portsmouth.
A.3 Vickers 9.3.1903. Sunk in collision HAZARD 2.2.1912, raised and sunk by ST VINCENT as a target 17.5.12.
A.4 Vickers 9.6.1903. Sold 16.1.20. J. H. Lee, Bembridge.
A.5 Vickers 3.3.1904. BU 1920 Portsmouth DY.
A.6 Vickers 3.3.1904. Sold 16.1.20 J. H. Lee, Bembridge.
A.7 Vickers 23.1.1905. Lost 16.1.14 in Whitsand Bay by diving in to mud.
A.8 Vickers 23.1.1905. Sold 8.10.20 Philip, Dartmouth.
A.9 Vickers 8.2.1905. BU 1920.
A.10 Vickers 8.2.1905. Sold 1.4.19 Ardrossan DD Co.
A.11 Vickers 8.3.1905. BU 5.20 Portsmouth.
A.12 Vickers 8.3.1905. Sold 16.1.20 J. H. Lee, Bembridge.
A.13 Vickers 18.4.1905. BU 1920.
AARON HUBERT Tlr ‘Strath’ type, 202gr, Fullerton, Paisley 1919. Sold 1919 = Graffoe.
ABBOTSHAM Inshore m/s, ‘Ham’ class. Blackmore, Bideford 16.12.1955. Sold 16.6.67 Pounds, Portsmouth.
ABDIEL (ex-ITHURIEL, renamed 1915) Destroyer m/l 1,687 tons, 325 × 32ft, 3-4in, 70 mines. Cammell Laird 12.10.1915. Sold 7.36 Rees, Llanelly.
ABDIEL Minelayer 2,650 tons, 418(oa) × 39ft, 6-4in, 160 mines. White 23.4.1940. Mined 9.9.43 at Taranto and sank 10.9.43.
ABDIEL Minelayer 1,200 tons, 265(oa) × 38.5ft. Thornycroft 27.1.1967. Sold Vanity Fair Investments Corp and resold Cantabra Metalurgiea SA, tow from Portsmouth 6.9.88 to Santander to BU.
ABEILLE Cutter 14. French, captured 2.5.1796 by DRYAD off The Lizard. Listed until 1799.
ABELARD S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Portsmouth DY. Canx 1945.
ABELIA Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Harland & Wolff 28.11.1940. Sold 1947, = Kraft, = Arne Skontorp (1954). BU Norway 12.1966.
ABERCROMBIE 3rd Rate 74, 1,871 tons. French D’HAUTPOUL captured 17.4.1809 by a squadron in West Indies. Sold 30.4.1817 Mr. Freake.
ABERCROMBIE (ex 20.6.1915, ex-M.1 19.6.15, ex-ADMIRAL FARRAGUT 31.5.15, ex-FARRAGUT) Monitor 6,150 tons, 320 × 90ft, 2-14in, 2-6in. Harland & Wolff 15.4.15. Sold 7.27 Ward, Inverkeithing.
ABERCROMBIE Monitor 7,850 tons, 365 × 90ft, 2-15in, 8-4in. Vickers Armstrong, Tyne 31.3.1942, Arr. 24.12.54 Ward, Barrow, for BU.
ABERDARE M/s, later ‘Hunt’ class. Ailsa, Troon 29.4.1918. Sold 13.3.47.
ABERDEEN Sloop 990 tons, 250 × 36ft, 4-4in. Devonport DY 22.1.1936. Sold 16.12.48: arr. 18.1.49 Ward, Hayle, for BU.
ABERDONIAN 1,648/09. 2-12pdr. Hired as depot ship for Coastal Forces 2.1940– 27.3.1945.
ABERFORD Seaward defence boat, ‘Ford’ class. Yarrow 23.9.1952. Kenyan naval 27.10.1964 = NYATI 16.12.1964, sold 1971. BU Mombasa
ABERFOYLE Tender 210 tons, 100 × 19ft. Purch 4.11.1920. For disposal 1947. (See DOLPHIN 1938.)
ABERGAVENNY (ex-East Indiaman purch 1795) 4th Rate 54, 1,182bm, 160 × 41ft. Sold 1807.
ABIGAIL Fireship 4,143bm. Purch 1666. Expended 25.7.1666.
ABIGAIL Cutter 3. Captured 12.12.1812 from the Danes by HAMADRYAD. Sold 1814.
ABINGDON M/s, later ‘Hunt’ class. Ailsa 11.6.1918. Bombed 5.4.42 by Italian aircraft at Malta and beached; BU there 1950.
ABOUKIR 3rd Rate 74, 1,870bm, 186 × 48ft. French AQUILON, captured 1.8.1798 Battle of the Nile. BU 3.1802 Plymouth.
ABOUKIR 3rd Rate 74, 1,703bm, 172.5 × 47ft. Brindley, Frindsbury, 18.11.1807. Harbour service 6.1824; sold 16.8.1838 J. Lachlan.
ABOUKIR 2nd Rate 90. 3,080bm, 204 × 60ft. Devonport DY 4.4.1848. Un docked 1.1.1858 as screw ship 3,091bm. Sold 23.11.1877 in Jamaica.
ABOUKIR Armoured cruiser 12,000 tons, 472(oa) × 69.5ft, 2-9.2in, 12-6in. Fairfield 16.5.1900. Sunk 22.9.14 by U.9 in North Sea.
ABRAHAM Flyboat 4, 202bm. Purch 1665. Sold 1666.
ABRAMS OFFERING Fireship 63bm. Purch 1694. Expended 12.9.1694 Dunkirk.
L’ABONDANCE Storeship 24,524bm, 182.5 × 29.5ft, 24-9pdr, 4-4pdr. French, captured 1781. Sold 29.4.1784.
ABUNDANCE Storeship 24,673bm, 140 × 32.5ft. Adams, Buckler’s Hard, 30.9.1799 and purch 1799. Sold 22.5.1823.
ABUNDANCE (See ALFRED of 1855.)
ABYSSINIA Turret ship (Indian) 2,900 tons, 225 × 42ft, 4-10in MLR. Dudgeon, Poplar, 19.2.1870. Sold 1.1903.
ACACIA Sloop, ‘Acacia’ class. Swan Hunter 15.4.1915. Sold 9.22 Dornom Bros.
ACACIA Tlr m/s, ‘Tree’ class, 505 tons, Ardrossan DY Co 7.3.1940. Sold 1.1947 =Brand V, lost 15.6.1953.
ACANTHUS Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Ailsa 26.5.1941. Lent Norwegian Navy 10.41–46. Sold 1946 to Royal Norwegian Navy as ANDENES. Sold 1956 mercantile = Colin Frye.
ACASTA 5th rate 40, 1,142bm, 154 × 41ft. Wells, Rotherhithe, 14.3.1797. BU 1.1.1821.
ACASTA Wood screw frigate, 3,202bm, 280 × 50ft. Deptford DY, LD 16.4.1861, canx 12.12.1863.
ACASTA Destroyer 996 tons, 260 × 27ft, 3-4in, 2-TT. J. Brown 10.9.1912. Sold 9.5.21 Ward, Hayle.
ACASTA Destroyer 1,350 tons, 323(oa) × 32.5ft, 4-4.7in, 8-TT. J. Brown 8.8.1929. Sunk 8.6.40 by German battlecruisers west of Narvik.
ACASTA S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class’. Portsmouth DY. Canx 1945.
ACAVUS MAC, Oil Tanker, 16,000 tons, 482.75(oa) × 59ft. Workman Clark 24.11.1934, MAC 10.1943–09.1944, 1-4in, 8-20mm, 4 a/c. = Iacra (52), BU Italy, La Seine 18.4.1963.
ACE S/m 1945 ‘A’ class. Devonport DY 14.3.1945 (not completed). Arr. 6.50 Smith & Houston, Port Glasgow for BU.
ACERTIF Brig-sloop 18. Danish, captured 8.1808 by DAPHNE in Baltic. Sold 1809.
ACHATES 13-gun ship, 100bm, 6-9pdr, 2-4pdr, 5 small. Deptford 11.10.1573. Hulked 1590. Sold 1605.
ACHATES Brig-sloop 10, ‘Cherokee’ class, 238bm. Brent, Rotherhithe, 1.2.1808. Wrecked 7.2.1810 Guadeloupe, West Indies.
ACHATES Brig-sloop, 16, 327bm, 95.5 × 28.5 ft. French Le MILAN captured 3.10.1809. Sold 11.6.1818 Mr. Ledger.
ACHATES Destroyer 982 tons, 260 × 27ft, 3-4in, 2-TT. J. Brown 14.11.1912. Sold 9.5.21 Ward, Rainham.
ACHATES Destroyer 1,350 tons, 323(oa) × 32.5ft, 4-4.7in, 8-TT. J. Brown 4.10.1929. Sunk 31.12.42 by German ADMIRAL HIPPER in Barents Sea.
ACHATES S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Devonport DY 20.9.1945 (not completed). Sunk 6.50 as a target, off Gibraltar.
ACHERON Bomb 8, 388bm, 108 × 29ft. Purch 10.1803. Captured 3.2.1805 by the French in Mediterranean and burnt.
ACHERON Wood paddle sloop, 722bm, 150 × 33ft, 2-9pdr. Sheerness DY 23.8.1838. Sold 24.9.1855 in Sydney, NSW.
ACHERON Wood screw sloop, 675bm 162 × 30ft. Deptford DY LD 14.10.1861, canx 12.12.1863.
ACHERON Torpedo boat (Australian), 16 tons, 78 × 10ft, 1-TT. Built in 1879. Sold 12.1902.
ACHERON (See NORTHUMBERLAND of 1866.)
ACHERON Destroyer 773 tons, 245 × 26ft, 2-4in, 2-12pdr, 2-TT. Thornycroft 27.6.1911. Sold 9.5.21 Ward, resold 20.6.23 J. J. King for BU.
ACHERON Destroyer 1,350 tons, 323(oa) × 32ft, 4-4.7in, 8-TT. Thornycroft 18.3.1930. Sunk 17.12.40 by mine in English Channel.
ACHERON S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Chatham DY 25.3.1947. BU Newport 14.2.1972.
ACHILLE Sloop 8. French, captured 1744. Captured 14.11.1745 by the Spanish off Jamaica.
ACHILLES Schooner 8. Purch 1747. Captured 1748 by the Spanish.
ACHILLES 4th Rate 60, 1,234bm, 154 × 42.5ft. Barnard, Harwich, 16.7.1757. Hulked 1780. Sold 1.6.1784.
ACHILLE Storeship 14, 420bm, 97 × 31ft. Purch 1780. Sold 8.1.1784.
ACHILLE 3rd Rate 78, 1,801bm, 178 × 48ft. French, captured 1.6.1794 at ‘Battle of 1st of June’. BU 2.1796 Plymouth.
ACHILLE 3rd Rate 74, 1,981bm, 184 × 50.5ft. Cleverley, Gravesend, 16.4.1798. Sold 11.1865 Castle & Beech.
ACHILLES Iron screw ship 9,820 tons, 380 × 58ft, 20-100pdr (rearmed 14-9in, 2-7in MLR). Chatham DY 23.12.1863. Base ship = HIBERNIA 1902; = EGMONT 3.04; = EGREMONT 6.16; = PEMBROKE 6.19; sold 26.1.23 Granton S. Bkg. Co.
ACHILLES Armoured cruiser 13,550 tons, 480 × 73.5ft, 6-9.2in, 4-7.5in, 24-3pdr. Armstrong 17.6.1905. Sold 9.5.21 Ward, BU Swansea and Briton Ferry 1923.
ACHILLES Cruiser 7,030 tons, 554.5(oa) × 55ft, 8-6in, 8-4in, 8-TT. Cammell Laird 1.9.1932. RIN DELHI 5.7.48, discarded 5.1978.
ACHILLES Frigate, ‘Leander’ class Y160, 2,650 tons 372(oa) × 43ft, 2-4.5in, Seacat, Helo, Limbo.Yarrow 21.11.1968.Sold to Chile 1.12.1990 =MINISTRO ZENTENO. PO 3.2006 and deleted.
ACONITE Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Ailsa, Troon, 31.3.1941. Free French ACONIT 7.41–30.4.47. Sold 7.47, = Terje 11.
ACORN 22-gun ship hired 1649–54.
ACORN Sloop 18, 430bm, 110 × 30ft. Croker, Bideford, 30.10.1807. BU 5.1819.
ACORN Sloop 18, 455bm, 112 × 30.5ft. Chatham DY 16.11.1826. Wrecked 14.4.1828 off Halifax, NS.
ACORN Sloop 18, 480bm, 114 × 31ft. Portsmouth DY. Canx 6.1831.
ACORN Brig 12, 485bm, 105 × 33.5ft, 12-32pdr. Devonport DY 15.11.1838. Coal hulk 1861. Sold 15.2.1869 Yokohama.
ACORN Composite screw sloop 970 tons, 167 × 32ft, 8-5in. Milford Haven SB Co. 6.9.1884. Sold 15.12.1899 Harris, Bristol. BU 1904.
ACORN Destroyer 760 tons, 246 × 25ft, 2-4in 2-12pdr, 2-TT. J. Brown 1.7.1910. Sold 29.11.21 Marple & Gillott, Saltash.
ACTAEON 6th Rate 28 (fir-built), 595bm, 118 × 34ft. Chatham DY 30.9.1757. Sold 9.9.1766 as unserviceable.
ACTAEON 6th Rate 28, 594bm, 120.5 × 33.5ft. Woolwich DY 18.4.1775. Grounded 29.6.1776 Charlestown and burnt.
ACTAEON 5th Rate 44, 887bm, 140 × 38ft. Randall, Rotherhithe, 29.1.1778. Harbour service 7.1795. Sold 30.4.1802.
ACTEON Brigff Rochefort. BU 10.1816.
ACTAEON 6th Rate 26, 620bm, 121.5 × 34.5ft. Portsmouth DY 31.1.1831. Survey ship 1856; lent Cork Harbour Board 2.1870 as a hulk. Sold 2.1889 J. Read, Portsmouth.
ACTAEON (See VERNON of 1832, ARIADNE of 1859 and DIDO of 1869.)
ACTAEON Sloop 1,350 tons, 299.5(oa) × 38.5ft, 6-4in, 4-40mm. Thornycroft 25.7.1945. W. German HIPPER 9.12.58. Hulk 31.7.64. Sold 25.10.67 to Eisen & Metall KG Hamburg for BU.
ACTEON (See ACTAEON.)
ACTIF (See ACTIVE.)
ACTIVE 6th Rate 28, 594bm, 118.5 × 34ft. Stanton, Deptford, 11.1.1758. Captured 1.9.1778 by the French off San Domingo.
ACTIVE Brig-sloop 14, 109bm, 76 × 20ft. Purch 1776. Captured 1780 by Americans off New York.
ACTIVE Cutter 12, in service 1779. Captured 18.8.1779 by the French cutter LE MUTIN in English Channel.
ACTIVE 5th Rate 32, 697bm, 126 × 36ft. Raymond, Northam, 30.8.1780. Wrecked 7.1796 in St Lawrence.
ACTIVE Brig-sloop 14, in service 1782.
ACTIF Gun Foundered 26.11.1794 off Bermuda.
ACTIVE 5th Rate 38, 1,058bm, 150 × 41ft. Chatham DY 14.12.1799. Harbour service 2.1826; = ARGO 15.11.1833. BU 10.1860 Plymouth.
ACTIVE 5th Rate 36, 1,627bm, 160 × 49ft, Chatham DY 19.7.1845 (originally ordered at Pembroke). = TYNE, TS 30.7.1867; = DURHAM 18.11.1867. Sold 12.5.1908, BU Bo’ness.
ACTIVE Iron screw corvette 3,080 tons, 270 × 42ft, 18-64pdr. Blackwall 13.3.1869. Sold 10.7.1906.
ACTIVE Scout cruiser 3,360 tons, 385(pp) 406(oa) × 41.5ft, 10-4in. Pembroke Dock 14.3.1911. Sold 21.4.20.
ACTIVE Destroyer 1,350 tons, 323(oa) × 32ft, 4-4.7in, 8-TT. Hawthorn Leslie 9.7.1929. Sold 20.5.47; BU Troon.
ACTIVE Frigate, Type 21, 2,750 tons 384(oa) × 40.5ft, 1-4.5in, Exocet, Seacat, 6-TT, Helo. Vosper/Thornycroft 23.11.1972. To Pakistan Navy 23.9.94 = SHAH JAHAN.
ACTIVITY (ex-Empire Activity, ex-Telemachus, converted) Escort carrier 11,800 tons, 512(oa) × 66.5ft, 2-4in, 15 a/c. Caledon 30.5.1942. Sold 4.46, = Breconshire. Arr Mihara, Japan to BU 24.4.1967.
ACTON 1,288gr/1901, 1-4in, 2-2pdr. Hired as decoy ship (Q.34) 5.2.1917–26.3.19.(also operated as GANDY, HARELDA, WOFFINGTON)
ACUTE (Gunboat No. 6) Gunvessel 12, 159bm, 75 × 22ft. Randall, Rotherhithe, 4.1797. Sold 10.1802.
ACUTE Gunastle, 21.7.1804. Harbour service 5.1813, then to coast guard service to 1831.
ACUTE (ex-ALERT, renamed 12.1941) M/s, ‘Algerine’ class. Harland & Wolff 14.4.1942. Destroyed 1964 as target.
ACUTE Patrol boat (RAN), 133 tons, 107.5(oa) × 20ft, 1-40mm, Evans Deakin 26.8.1967; HO to Indonesia 6.5.83 = SILEA.
ADAM & EVE Storeship 20. Dutch, captured 1652. Sold 1657.
ADAM & EVE Hoy 6, 72bm. Dutch, captured 1665. Sunk 1673 as a foundation at Sheerness.
ADAMANT 4th Rate 50, 1,060bm, 146.5 × 41ft. Baker, Liverpool, 24.1.1780. Harbour service 7.1809. BU 6.1814.
ADAMANT Depot ship 935 tons, 190 × 32.5ft. Cammell Laird 12.7.1911. Sold 21.9.32 Rees, Llanelly.
ADAMANT II (See LILY of 1915.)
ADAMANT Depot ship 12,700 tons. 620 × 70.5ft, 8-4.5in. Harland & Wolff 30.11.1940. Arr. Inverkeithing 11.9.70 for BU.
ADAMANT Submarine tender, 101(oa) × 25.6ft, Fairey Allday Marine, Cowes 8.10.1992. Sold to Serco Denholm 1.4.2008 = SD Adamant.
ADDA (See FIDGET of 1905.)
ADDER Galley 8 purch 1782, sold 5.1787.
ADDER (Gunboat No 17) Gunvessel 12, 159bm, 75 × 22ft. Barnard, Deptford, 22.4.1797. BU 2.1805.
ADDER Gun-brig 12, 180bm, 85 × 22ft. Ayles, Topsham, 9.11.1805. Captured 9.12.1806 by the French while aground on the French coast.
ADDER GunDavy, Topsham, 28.6.1813. Coast guard 1.1826. Wrecked 1832 near Newhaven.
ADDER (See SEAGULL of 1814.)
ADDER (ex-GPO vessel Crocodile) Wood paddle packet 241bm, 116.3 × 21.2ft, 1-12pdr. George Graham, Harwich 1826. Tx to RN 5.1837. Sold 13.5.1870 Wilson McLay.
ADDER (ex-War Dept Burgoyne) Tender 125 tons, 95 × 17.5ft. Tx 7.1905. = ATTENTIVE 11 7.19; sold 31.1.23 Carriden S. Bkg.Co.
ADELAIDE (ex-slaver Delia Josephine, purch 1827) Tender 95bm, 67 × 19ft. Sold 1833 Rio de Janeiro.
ADELAIDE (ex-slaver purch 5.1848) 140bm. Wrecked 9.10.1850 on Banana Island, W. Africa.
ADELAIDE (See FIDGET of 1905.)
ADELAIDE Light cruiser (RAN) 5,440 tons, 462.7(oa) × 50ft, 9-6in, 3-4in, Cockatoo DY 27.7.1918. Sold 1.49 for BU Port Kembla.
ADELAIDE Frigate (RAN) ‘Adelaide’ class, Todd, Seattle, 21.6.1978. PO 19.01.2008, to be artificial reef Terrigal, off NSW.
ADELAIDE Amphibious ship (RAN), 27,000 tons, Navantia, Spain. In service date 2010.
ADEPT S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Chatham DY. Canx 23.10.1945 (not LD).
ADMIRABLE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Tyne. Canx 1945.
ADMIRAL DEVRIES 3rd Rate 68, 1,360bm, 157 × 44.5ft. Dutch, captured 11.10.1797 Camperdown. Harbour service 1800. Sold 2.1806 in Jamaica.
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT Monitor (See ABERCROMBIE.)
ADMIRALTY Yacht, 115bm, 69 × 20ft. Woolwich DY 21.5.1814. = PLYMOUTH 7.1830; harbour ser vice ‘YC.1’ 1866. Sold 10.5.1870 Lethbridge & Drew.
ADMIRALTY Yacht, 136bm, 69 × 21.5ft. Portsmouth DY 28.2.1831, = FANNY (q.v.).
ADONIS Schooner 10, 111bm, 68 × 20ft. Bermuda 1806. Sold 1.9.1814.
ADROIT Patrol Boat (RAN), 146 tons, 107.5(oa) × 20ft, 1-40mm, Evans Deakin 3.2.1968. Expended as a target 8.8.1994 west of Rottnest Is.
ADULA MAC 16,000 tons, 482.75(oa) × 59ft. Oil tanker, Blythswood 28.1.1937. MAC 02.1944–05.1945, 1-4in, 8-20mm, 4 a/c. BU Briton Ferry 15.5.1953.
ADUR Frigate, ‘River’ class. Vickers, Montreal, 22.8.1942. To RCN as NADUR 1942; to USN as ASHE VILLE 11.42. Argentine HERCULES (1947) – later JUAN AZO PAEDO. BU 1973.
ADVANCE Patrol Boat (RAN) 146 tons, 107.5(oa) × 20ft, 1-40mm, Walkers 16.8.1967.PO 6.2.88 to RANR use and in 1988 to Australian National Maritime Museum.
ADVANTAGE 18-gun ship, 144/182bm, 6-9pdr, 8-6pdr, 4-2pdr. Built 1590. Burnt 1613.
ADVANTAGE 26-gun ship. Dutch, captured 1652. Sold 1655.
ADVANTAGE Tug ‘BAT’ class, Levingston 7.9.1942. RN 19.4.1943–19.2.1946.
ADVANTAGIA Galley 100bm. Woolwich 1601; sold 1629.
ADVENTURE Galley 26, 343bm, 4-18pdr, 11-9pdr, 11 small. Built 1594 Deptford. BU 1645.
ADVENTURE 32 117 × 29ft. Captured 1.3.1709 by the French off Martinique, West Indies.
ADVENTURE PRIZE Hoy 25bm, 38 × 12.5ft. French, captured 1693. Made a pitch boat 1695. Sold 1698.
ADVENTURE GALLEY In service 1696–99.
ADVENTURE 5th Rate 40, 530bm, 118 × 32ft. Sheerness DY 16.6.1709. Re built Portsmouth 1726 as 598bm. BU 6.1741 Deptford.
ADVENTURE 4th Rate 683bm, 124 × 36ft. Blaydes, Hull, 1.10.1741; 32-gun 5th Rate 1758. Sold 20.3.1770.
ADVENTURE Cutter 12, 61bm. 48 × 18ft. Purch 2.1763. Sold 5.4.1768.
ADVENTURE (exRAYLEIGH, renamed 25.12.1771; ex-Marquis of Rocking ham) Discovery vessel 336bm, 99 × 28ft, 10-4pdr. Purch 11.1771. Made a fireship 1780. Sold 7.5.1783.
ADVENTURE 5th Rate 44, 896bm, 140.5 × 38.5ft. Perry, Blackwall, 19.7.1784. Troopship 7.1789, harbour service 6.1801. BU 9.1816 Sheerness.
ADVENTURE (See AID of 1809.)
ADVENTURE (See RESOLUTE of 1855.)
ADVENTURE Torpedo ram, 2,640 tons. Ordered Chatham DY 6.3.1885, canx 12.8.1885.
ADVENTURE River gunboat 85 tons, 75 × 12ft. Yarrow 1891. Re Nyasa 1893; tx to the BCA Govt 1896. Sold 1921.
ADVENTURE Scout cruiser 2,670 tons, 374 × 38ft, 10-12pdr. Armstrong 8.9.1904. Sold 3.3.20 Ward, Morecambe.
ADVENTURE Minelayer 6,740 tons, 500 × 59ft, 4-4.7in, 280 mines. Devonport DY 18.6.1924. Repair ship 3.44. Sold 10.7.47, BU Ward, Briton Ferry.
ADVERSARY S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Tyne. Canx 1945.
ADVICE Pinnace 9, 50bm, 4-6pdr, 2-4pdr, 3 small. Woolwich DY 1586. Sold 1617.
ADVICE 48 built Woolwich 1698 as 550bm. Captured 27.6.1711 by the French.
ADVICE PRIZE Sloop. French, captured 1693. Sold 1695.
ADVICE PRIZE 6th Rate 18, 200bm, 82 × 24.5ft. French, captured 19.6.1704. Sold 10.4.1712.
ADVICE 4th Rate 50, 714bm, 131 × 35.5ft. Deptford DY 8.7.1712. = MILFORD 23.5.1744. Sold 11.5.1749.
ADVICE 4th Rate 50, 983bm, 140 × 40ft. Rowcliffe, Southampton, 26.2.1745. BU 10.1756 Portsmouth.
ADVICE Cutter 10, 95bm, 56 × 21ft, 10-3pdr. Purch 1779. Wrecked 1.6.1793 Bay of Honduras.
ADVICE Cutter 4, 47bm, 45.5 × 16ft, 4-3pdr. Itchen Ferry 1796. Last listed 8.1799.
ADVICE Advice boat, 180bm. Randall, Rotherhithe, 30.12.1800. Sold 1805.
ADVICE (ex-GPO vessel Vixen) Wood paddle packet, 197bm, 107.7 × 20ft. 1-12pdr. Deptford DY 1823. Tx to RN 4.1837. Sold 12.5.1870 J. J. Stark.
ADVISER Pink 8, in service 1654. captured 1655 by a privateer.
AE.1 and AE.2 (See under ‘E’ class submarines.)
AENEAS S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Cammell Laird 25.10.1945. BU Dunston 12.74.
AEOLUS 5th Rate 32, 704bm, 125.5 × 36ft. West, Deptford, 29.11.1758. Harbour service 5.1796; = GUERNSEY 1800. BU 5.1801.
AEOLUS 5th Rate 32, 910bm, 144 × 37.5ft. Barnard, Deptford, 28.2.1801. BU 10.1817 Deptford.
AEOLUS 5th Rate 46, 1,078bm, 152 × 40ft. Deptford DY 17.6.1825. Harbour service 1855. BU 3.1886 Castle, Thames.
AEOLUS 2nd class cruiser 3,600 tons, 314(oa) × 43.7ft, 2-6in. 6-4.7in, 8-6pdr. Devonport DY 13.11.1891. Sold 26.5.1914 Ward, Preston.
AETNA Fireship 8, 283bm, 91 × 26ft. Freame, Hull, 19.3.1691. Captured 18.4.1697 by the French.
AETNA (ex-Mermaid) Fireship 8, 183bm, 82 × 23ft. Purch 14.9.1739. Sold 23.10.1746.
AETNA (ex-Charlotte) Fireship 8, 316bm, 98.5 × 27ft. Purch 10.11.1756. Made a sloop 12.1756. Sold 15.2.1763.
AETNA (ex-Borryan) Fireship 8, 294bm, 94.5 × 27ft. Purch 1.1771. = SCORPION, sloop 10.8.1771. Sold 27.12.1780 in North America.
AETNA Bomb 8, 300bm, 92 × 27.5ft. Randall, Rotherhithe 20.6.1776. BU 5.1784.
AETNA 6th Rate 20. 564bm, 119.5 × 33ft. French ETNA captured 13.11.1796 by MELAMPUS and CHILDERS off the coast of France. = CORMORANT 1797. Wrecked 20.5.1800 on the coast of Egypt.
AETNA (ex-Success) Bomb 8, 369bm. Purch 10.1803. Sold 11.1.1816.
AETNA Bomb 6, 375bm, 106 × 28.5ft. Chatham DY 14.4.1824. Survey vessel 1826. Sold 20.2.1846 Bristol Sea men’s Friendly Society.
AETNA Wood screw floating battery, 1,469bm, 172.5 × 44ft, 14-68pdr. Scott Russell, Millwall. Laid down 9.10.1854, caught fire and launched herself 3.5.1855; BU on river bank.
AETNA Wood screw floating battery, 1,588bm, 186 × 44ft, 16-68pdr. Chatham DY 5.4.1856. Harbour service 1866. Burnt out at Sheerness 1873 and BU 1874.
AFFLECK (ex-USS OSWALD) Frigate, TE ‘Captain’ class. Bethlehem, Hingham 30.6.1943. Badly damaged 7.12.44; nominally returned to USN 1.9.45. Sold 4.10.47 to Portuguese owners as a hulk (floating power station). Hulk on Nostra Senora de Laluz – Teneriffe 1954.
AFFRAY S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Cammell Laird 20.4.1945. Lost 17.4.51 English Channel.
AFRICA 46-gun ship in service 1694–96.
AFRICA 3rd Rate 64, 1,354bm, 158 × 44.5ft. Perry, Blackwall 1.8.1761. Sold 15.7.1774.
AFRICA 3rd Rate 64, 1,415bm, 160 × 46ft. Barnard, Deptford 11.4.1781. Harbour service 9.1798. BU 5.1814 Portsmouth.
AFRICA (See EURYALUS of 1803.)
AFRICA Hired cutter 1803–04.
AFRICA Wood screw sloop, 669bm, 160 × 30ft. Devonport DY 29.3.1862. Sold 13.8.1862 to the Emperor of China, = CHINA. Sold Egypt 12.1865.
AFRICA (See GOOD HOPE.)
AFRICA Battleship 16,350 tons, 453.75(oa) × 78ft, 4-12in, 4-9.2in, 10-6in, 12-12pdr. Chatham DY 20.5.1905. Sold 30.6.20 Ellis, Newcastle.
AFRICA Aircraft carrier 36,800 tons, 810(oa) × 112ft, 16-4.5in, 58-40mm, 100 a/c. Fairfield, ordered 8.1943, canx 10.45.
AFRICAN (ex-sloop DEE, renamed 5.1825) Wood Paddle DY tug, 263bm, Woolwich DY 30.8.1825. BU 12.1862.
AFRICAINE 5th rate 38, 1,085bm, 154 × 40ft. French, captured 19.2.1801 by PHOEBE in Mediterranean. BU 9.1816.
AFRICAINE 5th Rate 46, 1,173bm, 159 × 41ft. Chatham DY 20.12.1827. Sold 9.5.1867 to Trinity House as a hulk. BU 1903.
AFRIDI Destroyer 872 tons, 250 × 25ft, 3-12pdr, 2-TT. Armstrong 8.5.1907. Sold 9.12.19 F. Wilkinson, wrecked off Redcar 1.1920.
AFRIDI Destroyer 1,870 tons, 377(oa) × 36.5ft, 8-4.7in, 4-TT. Vickers Arm strong, Tyne, 8.6.1937. Sunk 3.5.40 by air attack off Namsos, Norway.
AFRIKANDER Base ships. (See TICK LER of 1879, GRIPER of 1879.)
AFTERGLOW Admiralty wood Dr, Ailsa, Troon, = EQUINOX 1918 and canx.
AFTERGLOW Admiralty wood Dr, 112gr, Chambers, Lowestoft 1919. Sold 11921, = Port Richard. Hired as AFTERGLOW, m/s 1-3pdr 11.1939–8.1944.
AGADIR Hospital ship, 2738 tons, 285 × 41ft. Laing, 1907. Hired 30.11.1914–1919.
AGAMEMNON 3rd Rate 64, 1,384bm, 160 × 45ft. Adams, Buckler’s Hard, 10.4.1781. Wrecked 16.6.1809 River Plate.
AGAMEMNON Screw 2nd Rate 91, 3,102bm, 230 × 55.5ft, 36-8in, 54-32pdr. Woolwich DY 22.5.1852. Sold 2.5.1870 W. H. Moore.
AGAMEMNON Battleship 8,510 tons, 280 × 66ft, 4-12.5in. MLR, 2-6in. Chatham DY 17.9.1879. BU 1.1903 in Germany.
AGAMEMNON Battleship 16,500 tons, 443.5(oa) × 79.5ft, 4-12in, 10-9.2in, 24-12pdr. Fairfield 23.6.1906. Target ship 9.20. Sold 24.1.27 Cashmore, Newport.
AGAMEMNON 7,593/1929 2-4in, 4-20mm, 400 mines. Completed as M/L 10.1940. Amenities ship (Blue Ensign) 1944– returned 26.4.1947.
AGASE (or AGNES?) Carrack, captured 1416
AGASSIZ Corvette, ‘Flower’ class (RCN). Burrard DD Co. 15.8.1940. Sold 1946 Irving & Brunswick Motors, Moncton.
AGATE (ex-Mavis Rose) A/S Tlr, 627 tons, 1-4in. Purch 1935. Wrecked 6.8.1941 near Cromer.
AGATE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Cammell Laird. Canx 1945.
AGGRESSOR Gun-brig 14, 179bm, 85 × 22ft. Perry, Blackwall 1.4.1801. Sold 23.11.1815.
AGGRESSOR S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Cammell Laird. Canx 1945.
AGILE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Cammell Laird. Canx 1945.
L’AGLAIA Sloop 18. French privateer captured 18.4.1782 by AEOLUS. Sold 5.6.1783.
AGINCOURT (ex-East Indiaman Earl Talbot purch on stocks) 3rd Rate 64, 1,440bm, 161 × 46ft. Perry, Blackwall 23.7.1796. Became a prison ship and = BRISTOL 6.1.1812. Sold 15.12.1814.
AGINCOURT 3rd Rate 74, 1,747bm, 176 × 48.5ft. Plymouth DY 19.3.1817. Harbour service 3.1848; = VIGO 4.1865. Sold 10.1884 Castle, Thames.
AGINCOURT (ex-CAPTAIN, renamed 1861) Iron screw ship, 6,621bm, 10,600 tons, 400 × 59.5ft, 17-9in. MLR. Laird 27.3.1865. Harbour service = BOSCAWEN III 3.1904; = GANGES II 21.6.06; coal hulk ‘C.109’ 9.08. Arr. 21.10.60 Ward, Grays, for BU.
AGINCOURT Battleship 27,500 tons. Portsmouth DY. Ordered 1914, canx 26.8.14.
AGINCOURT (ex-Turkish SULTAN OS MAN I, seized 8.1914, ex-Brazilian RIO DE JANEIRO) Battleship 27,500 tons, 671.5(oa) × 89ft, 14-12in, 20-6in. Armstrong 22.1.1913. Sold 19.12.22 Rosyth S. Bkg. Co.
AGINCOURT Destroyer 2,400 tons, 379oa) × 40ft, 5-4.5in, 10-TT. Hawthorn Les lie 29.1.1945. BU 10.74 Sunderland.
AGNES (See AGASE.)
AGRA Tlr, ‘Basset’ classs (RIN) Hooghly DK and Eng Co 18.3.1942. Sold 4.1946 = Fritha.
AHMEDABAD Tlr, ‘Basset’ class (RIN), Burn, Clacutta 28.10.1943. Sold 1947.
AID 18-gun ship, 300bm, 8-9pdr, 2-6pdr, 4-4pdr, 4 small. Deptford 6.10.1562. Rebuilt 1580. BU 1599.
AID Transport 10, 314bm, 105.5 × 26ft, 10-12pdr carr. Brindley, Lynn, 4.4.1809. Survey ship 3.1817; = ADVENTURE 24.5.1821. Sold 19.3.1853
AIGLE 5th Rate 38, 1,003bm, 147.5 × 39ft. French, captured 14.9.1782 off the Delaware. Wrecked 18.7.1798 off Cape Farina, Spain.
AIGLE 5th Rate 36, 990bm, 150 × 39ft. Adams, Buckler’s Hard, 23.9.1801. Coal hulk 1853; sunk in shallow water during torpedo experiments at Sheerness and sold 24.11.1870 for BU.
AILSA CRAIG Tlr, ‘Isles’ class, Cook, Welton & Gemmell 16.10.1943. Sold 4.1946 = Veslemoy, = Toran (52), lost 19.2.1955
AIMABLE 5th Rate 32, 782bm, 133.5 × 36.5ft. French, captured 19.4.1782. BU 5.1814.
AIMWELL Gunvessel 12, 148bm, 75 × 21ft. Perry, Blackwall, 12.5.1794. BU 11.1811 Sheerness.
AIMWELL Rescue tug, ‘BAT’ class, Defoe Bay City 8.4.1942 on Lend-Lease. Returned to USN 1946.
AINTHORPE Coastal m/s ordered 9.9.1950 Thornycroft, canx 1953.
AIR POCKET Admiralty wood Dr. 99gr, Chambers 1918. = AMBITIOUS 1919. Sold 10.1020 = Cineraria.
AIRE Frigate, ‘River’ class. Fleming & Ferguson 22.4.1943. = TA MAR 3.46; reverted to AIRE 12.46. Wrecked 20.12.46 on Bombay Reef.
AIREDALE Destroyer, ‘Hunt’ class Type III. J. Brown 12.8.1941. Sunk 15.6.42 by German aircraft north of Sollum.
AISNE Destroyer 2,380 tons, 379(oa) × 40ft, 5-4.5in, 10-TT. Vickers Armstrong, Tyne, 12.5.1945. Arr. Inverkeithing 26.6.70 for BU.
AITAPE Patrol boat (RAN) 146 tons, 107.5(oa) × 20ft, 1-40mm. Walkers 6.7.1967. To Papua-New Guinea 9.75. Hulked for spares 1989.
AJAX 3rd Rate 74, 1,615bm, 168 × 48.5ft, Portsmouth DY 23.12.1767. Sold 10.2.1785.
AJAX 3rd Rate 74, 1,953bm, 183 × 49.5ft, Randall, Rotherhithe. 3.3.1798. Burnt 11.2.1807 by accident off Tenedos.
AJAX 3rd Rate 74, 1,761bm, 176 × 48.5ft, Perry, Blackwall, 2.5.1809. Undocked 1846 as screw ship. BU 1864.
AJAX (See VANGUARD of 1835.)
AJAX Battleship 8,660 tons, 280 × 66ft, 4-12.5in MLR, 2-6in. Pembroke Dock 10.3.1880. Sold 3.1904 Castle, Thames.
AJAX Battleship 23,000 tons, 597.75(oa) × 89ft, 10-13.5in, 12-4in. Scotts 21.3.1912. Sold 11.26 Alloa S. Bkg Co., Rosyth and Charlestown, for BU.
AJAX Cruiser 6,985 tons, 554.5(oa) × 55.8ft, 8-6in, 8-4in, 8-TT. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, 1.3.1934. Arr. 13.11.49 Cash more, Newport for BU.
AJAX (ex-FOWEY) Frigate, ‘Leander’ class Y100, 2,650 tons 372(oa) × 41ft, 2-4.5in, Limbo, Helo, (later Ikara, Limbo, Helo). Cammell Laird 16.8.1962. Arrived Millom, Cumbria to BU 3.8.88.
AJDAHA Wood paddle frigate (Indian), 1,440bm. Fletcher, Limehouse, 1846. Sold 4.1863.
AKBAR 3rd Rate 74. Laid down 4.4.1807 Prince of Wales Island, Malabar; canx 12.10.1809.
AKBAR (See CORNWALLIS of 1801.)
AKBAR (See HERO of 1816.)
AKBAR Wood paddle frigate (Indian), 1,143bm. Napier, Glasgow, 1841. Sold 2.1859.
AKBAR (See TEMERAIRE of 1876.)
AKBAR M/s, ‘Catherine’ class. Gen. Eng., Alameda, 12.12.1942 for RN but retained by USN.
AKERS Fireship, 85bm. Purch 4.1794. Sold 16.12.1801.
ALAART (See under ALERT.)
ALACRITY Brig-sloop 18, ‘Cruizer’ class. Rowe, Newcastle, 13.11.1806. Captured 26.5.1811 by the French ABEILLE off Corsica.
ALACRITY Brig-sloop 10, ‘Cherokee’ class. Deptford DY 29.12.1818. Sold 28.8.1835.
ALACRITY Wood screw sloop, 675bm, 180.5 × 28.5ft. Mare, Blackwall, 20.3.1856. Sold 7.10.1864 Castle, Thames.
ALACRITY (ex-Ethel) 85bm, 1-12pdr. Purch 4.11.1872. Sold 1882 Sydney NSW.
ALACRITY Despatch vessel 1,700 tons, 250 × 32.5ft, 4-5in, 4-6pdr. Palmer 28.2.1885. Sold 9.1913 in Hong Kong.
ALACRITY Steam Yacht/Despatch vessel, 1,830 tons (GRT), built as MARGARITA, = SERAMIS (1913). Requis and conv to ABV = MLADA 9.1918. Cd 8.8.1919 as Yacht for C-in-C Far East. PO 7.1922, sold 1923 and removed from Lloyds Register 10.7.1939.
ALACRITY (See SURPRISE of 1885.)
ALACRITY Sloop 1,350 tons, 299.5(oa) × 38.5ft, 6-4in. Denny 1.9.1944. Arr. 15.9.56 Arnott Young, Dalmuir, for BU.
ALACRITY Frigate, Type 21, 2,750 tons, 384(oa) × 40.5ft, 1-4.5in, Exocet, Seacat, Helo, 6-TT, Yarrow 18.9.1974. To Pakistan Navy 1.3.1994 = BADR.
ALADDIN S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Cammell Laird, canx 1945.
ALADER YOUSANOFF Russian merchant 2,071/1905, Cd as seaplane carrier 1-12pdr, 2 a/c 01.1919. Tx 8.1919 to White Russians on Caspian Sea.
ALAMEIN Destroyer 2,400 tons, 379(oa) × 40ft, 5-4.5in, 8-40mm, 10-TT. Hawthorn Leslie 28.5.1945. Arr. 1.12.64 Hughes Bolckow, Blyth, for BU.
ALARIC 5th Rate 36, 1,020bm. Name chosen in 1811 for IRIS but not used.
ALARIC S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Cammell Laird 18.2.1946. BU Inverkeithing 7.71.
ALARM 5th Rate 32, 683bm, 125 × 35.5ft. Barnard, Harwich, 19.9.1758. BU 9.1812 Portsmouth.
ALARM Cutter 4, 81bm, 53 × 19.5ft. Purch 2.1763. Sold 23.10.1780.
ALARM Galley purch 6.1777 in North America. Lost 1.8.1778 Rhode Is land.
ALARM 6th Rate 24, 635bm, 122 × 34ft. Dutch, captured 28.8.1799 Texel. = HELDER 4.1800, HELDIN 24.4.1800, sold 3.1802.
ALARM 6th Rate 28, 652bm, 125 × 34.5ft. Pembroke Dock. LD 1.1832, canx 10.1832.
ALARM 6th Rate 28, 910bm, 131 × 40.5ft. Sheerness DY 22.4.1845. Coal hulk 1860. Sold 7.7.1904.
ALARM Torpedo gunboat 810 tons, 230 × 27ft, 2-4.7in, 4-3pdr. Sheerness DY undocked 13.9.1892. Sold 9.4.1907 Thames S. Bkg Co.
ALARM Destroyer 780 tons, 246 × 25ft, 2-4in, 2-12pdr, 2-TT. J. Brown 29.8.1910. Sold 9.5.21 Ward, Hayle.
ALARM M/s, ‘Algerine’ class. Harland & Wolff 5.2.1942. Badly damaged by mine 1.43 and sold 12.43 Bône for BU.
ALAUNIA 14,030/7.2.1925, Hired as AMC 24.08.1939, 8-6in, 2-3in. Purch 8.12.1944 and cd as Repair Ship 21.8.1945, 19,000 tons, 538(oa) × 65.25ft, 20-20mm. Arr. 10.09.1957 Hughes Bolckow, Blyth to BU.
ALAUNIA II (See MARSHAL NEY.)
ALBACORE Sloop 16, 320bm, 97 × 27ft, 16-6pdr. American privateer ROYAL LOUIS, captured 1781 by NYMPHE and AMPHION. Sold 29.4.1784.
ALBACORE Sloop 16, 361bm, 105 × 28ft. Randall, Rotherhithe, 4.1793. Sold 1802.
ALBACORE Sloop 18, 370bm, 106.5 × 28ft. Hillhouse, Bristol, 10.5.1804. Sold 14.12.1815.
ALBACORE Schooner, 37bm, 44 × 15ft. Bermuda 1828. Sold 1832.
ALBACORE Wood screw gunboat, ‘Albacore’ class. White 3.4.1856. Tank vessel 1874; hulk 1882. BU 6.1885 Bermuda.
ALBACORE Composite screw gunboat 560 tons, 135 × 26ft, 2-5in, 2-4in. Laird 13.1.1883. Sold 18.5.1906.
ALBACORE Destroyer 440 tons, 215 × 21ft, 3-12pdr, 2-TT. Palmer 19.9.1906 and purch 3.1909. Sold 1.8.1919 T. R. Sales.
ALBACORE M/s, ‘Algerine’ class. Harland & Wolff 2.4.1942. Arr. 9.9.63 Smith & Houston, Port Glasgow, for BU.
ALBAN Schooner 10, 111bm. Bermuda 1806. In Danish hands 25.5.10–11.5.11. Wrecked 18.12.1812 off Aldeburgh.
ALBAN Schooner 14, 253bm, 94.5 × 24.5ft. American WILLIAM BAYARD, captured 12.3.1813 by WARSPITE. BU 18.2.1822.
ALBAN Wood paddle vessel (ex-brig-sloop), 294bm, 110 × 25ft, 4-18pdr, 2-18pdr carr. Deptford DY 27.12.1826. Rebuilt as 405bm. BU 5.1860.
ALBAN Wood screw gunvessel, ‘Philomel’ class. Deptford DY LD 1.10.1860, canx 12.12.1863.
ALBANAISE Brig-sloop 14, 238bm. French, captured 3.6.1800 by PHOENIX off Cape Feno. HO 23.11.1800 to the Spanish at Malaga by mutineers and returned to French Navy.
ALBANY Sloop 14, 270bm, 91 × 26ft. Darby, Gosport, 23.3.1745. Captured 7.7.1746 by the French off N. America.
ALBANY (See TAVISTOCK of 1744.)
ALBANY (ex-American Rittenhouse) Purch 1776. BU 1780.
ALBANY Patrol boat (RAN) ‘Armidale’ class, Austal Shipyard & Defence Maritime Services, Henderson, Western Australia, named 18.2.2006, Cd 15.7.2006.
ALBATROSS Brig-sloop 16, 366bm, 96 × 30ft. Ross, Rochester, 30.12.1795. Sold 1807 East Indies.
ALBATROSS Survey schooner 64bm. Purch 1826. Sold 30.8.1833 Mr. Ledger.
ALBATROSS Brig 16, 484bm, 105 × 33ft, 16-32pdr. Portsmouth DY 28.3.1842. BU 19.5.1860.
ALBATROSS Wood screw sloop 695bm, 185 × 28.5ft, 2-68pdr, 2-32pdr. Chatham DY LD 1862, canx 12.12.1863.
ALBATROSS Composite screw sloop 940 tons, 160 × 31ft, 2-7in, 2-64pdr. Chatham DY 27.8.1873. BU 2.1889 Chatham.
ALBATROSS Destroyer 430 tons, 228 × 21ft, 1-12pdr, 5-6pdr, 2-TT. Thornycroft, Chiswick, 19.7.1898. Sold 7.6.20 J. W. Houston.
ALBATROSS Seaplane carrier (RAN) 4,800 tons, 443.75(oa) × 61ft, 4-4.7in, 9 a/c. Cockatoo DY 23.2.1928. To RN 1938; repair ship 1942. Sold 19.8.46, = Pride of Torquay, resold 11.1946 = Hellenic Prince. Sold for BU Hong Kong 08.1954.
ALBEMARLE Ship in service 1664.
ALBEMARLE Fireship 6, 164bm. Purch 1667. Expended 1667.
ALBEMARLE 2nd Rate 90, 1,376bm, 162 × 44.5ft. Betts, Harwich, 1680. = UNION 29.12.1709; rebuilt 1726 as 1,578bm. BU 11.1749 Chatham.
ALBEMARLE 6th Rate 28, 543bm, 125 × 32ft. French MENAGERE, captured 18.12.1779. Sold 1.6.1784.
ALBEMARLE Battleship 14,000 tons 405 × 75.5ft, 4-12in, 12-6in. Chatham DY 5.3.1901. Sold 19.11.19 Cohen, Swansea.
ALBERNI Corvette (RCN), ‘Flower’ class. Yarrow, Esquimalt, 22.8.1940. Sunk 21.8.44 by U.480 in English Channel.
ALBERT Iron paddle troopship, 459bm, 134 × 37ft, 3 guns. Laird 9.1840. Wrecked 13.7.1843; salved and tx 1.3.1845 to the Gambia Government.
ALBERT Gunvessel (Australian) 350 tons, 115 × 25ft, 1-9in, 1-6in, 2-9pdr. Armstrong Mitchell 1883. Sold c. 1896.
ALBERTA Wood paddle yacht, 370bm, 391 tons, 160 × 22.5ft. Pembroke Dock 3.10.1863. BU 1912 Portsmouth.
ALBION 3rd Rate 74, 1,662bm, 168 × 46ft. Deptford DY 16.5.1763. Floating battery 1794. Wrecked 26.4.1797 Swin.
ALBION Armed ship 22, 393bm, 103 × 30ft. Hired 1793–9.94 and purch 1798. Sold 1803 Sheerness.
ALBION 3rd Rate 74, 1,743bm, 175 × 48.5ft. Perry, Blackwall 17.6.1802. Harbour service 7.31. BU 6.1836 Deptford.
ALBION 2nd Rate 90, 3,111bm, 204 × 60ft, 8-8in, 4-68pdr, 78-32pdr. Plymouth DY 3.1842, Undocked 21.5.1861 as screw ship 3,117bm. BU 1884.
ALBION Battleship 12,950 tons, 390 × 74ft, 4-12in, 12-6in. Thames Iron Works 21.6.1898. Sold 11.12.19 Ward, Morecambe.
ALBION Aircraft carrier 22,000 tons, 737.75(oa) × 90ft (123ft max), 32×40mm, 50 a/c. Swan Hunter 6.5.1947; commando carrier 8.62. Sold 9.7.73, resold 11.73, BU Faslane.
ALBION Landing platform dock, 14,600 tons, 577.4(oa) × 94.8ft, Goalkeeper, 4-20mm, 3 Helos, 305 troops, BAe Systems, Barrow 9.3.2001.
ALBRIGHTON Destroyer, ‘Hunt’ class Type III. J. Brown 11.10.1941. Sold 11.57 West German Navy, = RAULE 9.4.59. PO 1968, sold 1969 for BU Eisen & Metall, Hamburg.
ALBUERA Destroyer 2,380 tons, 355 × 40ft, 5-4.5in, 8-40mm, 10-TT. Vickers Armstrong, Tyne, 28.8.1945. Not completed; used as target. BU 11.50 Ward, Inverkeithing.
ALBURY M/s, later ‘Hunt’ class. Ailsa 21.11.1918. Sold 13.3.47 Dohmen & Habets, Liége.
ALCA 3,712/1927, 1-4in, 6-20mm, 220 mines. Hired as M/L (Controlled M/L Base ship) 2.1940–5.1946.
ALCALA (See ISLAND QUEEN.)
ALCANTARA 15,831/1913, 8-6in, 2-6pdr. Hired as AMC 10.3.1915. Sunk 29.2.1916 in action with German GREIF in North Sea.
ALCANTARA 22,186 tons gr. Harland & Wolff 23.9.1926, 8-6in, 2-3in. Hired as AMC 26.8.1939. PO 16.7.43 & to MWT as troopship. BU Osaka 30.9.1958.
ALCASTON Coastal m/s, ‘Ton’ class. Thornycroft 5.1.1953. = SNIPE (RAN) 30.5.61. BU 1985.
ALCESTE 5th Rate 32, 932bm, 145 × 39ft. French, captured 29.8.1793 Toulon and tx to the Sardinians; recaptured by the French 1794 and again captured 18.6.1799 by a squadron in Mediterranean. Sold 5.1802.
ALCESTE 5th Rate 38, 1,101bm, 152.5 × 40ft. French MINERVE captured 25.9.1806 by a squadron off Rochefort. Wrecked 18.2.1817 China Sea.
ALCESTIS S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Cammell Laird. Canx 1945.
ALCIDE 3rd Rate 64, 1,375bm, 159 × 45ft. French, captured 6.6.1755. Sold 27.5.1772.
ALCIDE 3rd Rate 74, 1,625bm, 168 × 47ft. Deptford DY 30.7.1779. BU 4.1817.
ALCIDE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, 12.4.1945. Sold 18.6.74 Draper & Sons, BU Hull.
ALCMENE 5th Rate 32, 731bm, 131 × 35.5ft. French, captured 21.10.1779 West Indies. Sold 17.8.1784.
ALCMENE 5th Rate 32, 803bm, 135 × 36.5ft. Graham, Harwich, 8.11.1794. Wrecked 29.4.1809 off Nantes.
ALCMENE (See JEWEL of 1809.)
ALDBOROUGH Ketch 10, 100bm. Johnson, Aldeburgh, 6.5.1691. Accidentally blown up 17.8.1696.
ALDBOROUGH 6th Rate 20, 288bm, 94 × 27ft. Johnson, Blackwall, 6.3.1706. Rebuilt 1727 as 374bm. BU 3.1743 Deptford.
ALDBOROUGH 6th Rate 24,506bm, 112 × 32ft. Okill, Liverpool, 16.3.1743. Sold 28.11.1749 Dept ford.
ALDBOROUGH 6th Rate 20, 440bm, 108 × 30.5ft. Perry, Blackwall 15.5.1756. BU 9.1777.
ALDBOROUGH (See LEAMINGTON.)
ALDENHAM Destroyer, ‘Hunt’ class Type III. Cammell Laird 27.8.1941. Sunk 14.12.44 by mine in Adriatic.
ALDER (ex-Lord Davidson) Tlr 346/1929, 560 tons, purch as m/s 2.1939. Grounded 22.10.1941 east coast of Scotland.
ALDER LAKE Motor m/s (RCN) 255 tons, 126 × 26ft. Midland Bt Wks 3.12.1944. To Russian Navy 20.9.1945 as T-196.
ALDERNEY Bomb 8, 263bm, 90.5 × 26ft. Woolwich DY 29.3.1735. Hulked 2.1741 in Jamaica.
ALDERNEY (ex-SQUIRREL, renamed 11.2.1742) 6th Rate 24, 504bm, 112 × 32ft. Reed, Hull, 18.3.1743. Sold 26.6.1749.
ALDERNEY Sloop 12, 235bm, 88.5 × 25ft. Snook, Saltash, 5.2.1757. Sold 1.5.1783.
ALDERNEY S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, 25.6.1945. BU 8.72 Cairnryan.
ALDERNEY Offshore patrol vessel, 925 tons, 195.3(oa) × 34.2ft, Hall Russell 27.2.1979. PO 31.10.2001, sold Bangladesh Navy 31.10.2002 =KARATOA.
ALDINGTON (ex-PITTINGTON) Coastal m/s. Camper & Nicholson 15.9.1955. Loaned to Ghana 1964= EJURA, purch 1974. BU 1979.
ALECTO Fireship 12, 432bm, 109 × 30ft. King, Dover, 26.5.1781. Sold 1802.
ALECTO Wood paddle sloop, 796bm, 164 × 32.5ft. Chatham DY 7.9.1839. BU 11.1865 Castle, Thames.
ALECTO Composite paddle vessel 620 tons, 2 guns. Westwood Bailey, Poplar, 18.4.1882. Sold 12.10.1899 in Sierra Leone.
ALECTO Depot ship 935 tons, 190 × 32.5ft. Laird 29.8.1911. Sold 7.7.1949; BU Llanelly.
ALERT Cutter 8, in service 1753–54.
ALERT Cutter 10, 133bm, 69 × 26ft. Ladd, Dover, 24.6.1777. Became a sloop 10.77. Captured 17.7.1778 by French in English Channel.
ALERT Cutter 10, 202bm, 78 × 25ft. Dover 1778. Captured 10.1780 by French in Bay of Biscay.
ALERT Brig-sloop 14, 205bm, 78.5 × 25ft. King, Dover, 1.10.1779. Sold 2.10.1792 Deptford.
ALERT Schooner 4, 88bm. Purch 1790. BU 1799.
ALERTE Brig-sloop 14, 248bm, 80 × 24ft. French, captured 8.1793 Toulon. Retaken 18.12.1793 and burnt Toulon.
ALERT Sloop 16, 365bm, 105 × 28ft. Randall, Rotherhithe, 8.10.1793. captured 5.1794 by the French UNITE off the coast of Ireland.
ALERT Brig-sloop 8 (Indian), 85bm. Bombay DY 1795.
ALERT (ex-collier Oxford) 393bm, 105 × 29ft, 16-18pdr carr. Purch 5.1804. Captured 13.8.1812 by the American ESSEX off N. America.
ALEART Sloop 16, 306bm, 94.5 × 27.5ft, 16-24pdr carr. Danish, captured 1807. Retaken 10.8.1809 by the Danes off the coast of Denmark. (Was to have been = CASSANDRA.)
ALERT Brig-sloop, ‘Cruizer’ class, 388bm. Pitcher, Northfleet, 14.7.1813. Sold 11.1832 Cristall, Rotherhithe.
ALERT Packet brig 8, 358bm, 95 × 30ft, 8-18pdr. Bottomley, Rotherhithe, 24.9.1835. BU 5.1851.
ALERT Brig 8, ex-slaver captured 1848 by BONETTA. Sold 1850.
ALERT Wood screw sloop, 751bm, 160 × 32ft, 17-32pdr. Pembroke Dock 20.5.1856. Survey ship 8.78. Given to American Research Society 1884.
ALERT Sloop 960 tons, 180 × 32ft, 6-4in, 4-3pdr. Sheerness DY 28.12.1894. Lent to Basra civil authorities 1906; sold 12.1.26 Basra as pi lot vessel. BU 10.49.
ALERT (See ACUTE of 1942.)
ALERT (See DUNDRUM BAY.)
ALERT (See LOYAL GOVERNOR.)
ALEXANDER Fireship 12, 150bm. captured 1688. Accidentally burnt 11.6.1689.
ALEXANDER 3rd Rate 74, 1,621bm, 169 × 47ft. Deptford DY 8.10.1778. Hulk 1805. BU 11.1819. (Was in French hands 11.94– 6.95.)
ALEXANDER Storeship, in service 1788–90.
ALEXANDER Schooner 6, 125bm. Purch 1796. Sold 1802.
ALEXANDRE 2nd Rate 80, 2,231bm. French, captured 6.2.1806 by the fleet off San Domingo. Harbour ser vice 1811. Sold 16.51822.
ALEXANDER Transport (NZ Government). Purch 11.1864. Wrecked 8.8.1865 near Taranaki, New Zealand.
ALEXANDER Icebreaker 6,000 tons. Russian ALEXANDR NEVSKI, seized 1917. Returned 1919 to the Russian Government.
ALEXANDER Discovery vessel 1818–19.
ALEXANDER COLVILLE Tlr, ‘Castle’ type, Greenock. Canx 1919.
ALEXANDER DUNBAR Tlr, ‘Castle’ type, Canx 1919.
ALEXANDER HILLS Tlr, ‘Mersey’ type, Cochrane 22.5.1917. = MOY 1920. Target towing 1921, danlayer 1943. Sold 11.1946 = Coral Island, = Forbes (1954).
ALEXANDER McBETH Tlr, ‘Mersey’ type, Cochrane 5.12.1918. Sold 1919 = John W Johnson.
ALEXANDER McDOWELL Tlr, ‘Mersey’ type, Cochrane. Canx 1919.
ALEXANDER MURRAY Tlr, ‘Mersey’ type, Cochrane. Canx 1919.
ALEXANDER PALMER Tlr, ‘Mersey’ type. Smiths Dk 21.5.1917. = NESS 1920. Sold 1922, Spanish Navy.
ALEXANDER SCOTT Tlr, ‘Castle’ type. Smiths Dk 3.8.1917. Sold 4.5.1920, same name. Hired as m/s 8.1939–1944.
ALEXANDRA (ex-SUPERB, renamed 4.3.1874) Battleship 9,490 tons, 325 × 64ft, 2-11in. MLR, 10-10in. MLR, 6-64pdr. Chatham DY 7.4.1875. Sold 6.10.1908 Garnham.
ALEXANDRA Screw yacht 2,050 tons, 275 × 40ft, 2-7pdr. Inglis 30.5.1907. Sold 5.25, = Prince Olaf.
ALEXANDRIA 5th Rate 38, 902bm, 144.5 × 38ft. French REGENEREE, captured 2.9.1801 by the fleet at Alexandria. BU 4.1804.
ALEXANDRIA Tender, in service 1802–03.
ALEXANDRIA 5th Rate 32 (fir-built), 662bm, 127 × 34ft. Portsmouth DY 18.2.1806. BU 7.1818.
ALEXANDRIA Frigate (RCN), ‘River’ class. Montreal, ordered 1943, can × 12.43.
ALEXIA MAC, Oil Tanker, 16,000 tons, 481(oa) × 59ft. Bremer Vulkan 20.12.1934. MAC 12.1943–06.1945, 1-4in, 8-20mm, 4 a/c. = Ianthina (51), BU Blyth 17.8.1954.
ALFREDA Ship 20, 440bm. American, captured 9.3.1778. Sold 1782.
ALFRED 3rd Rate 74, 1,638bm, 169 × 47ft. Chatham DY 22.10.1778. BU 5.1814.
ALFRED (See ASIA of 1811.)
ALFRED Iron screw storeship, 617bm, 170 × 27.5ft, Purch 6.1.1855. = ABUNDANCE 2.1855; sold 1856.
ALFRED Brig, hired 1793.
ALFRISTON Coastal m/s, ‘Ton’ class. Thornycroft 29.4.1953. = WARSASH 5.54, = ALFRISTON 1958, = KILMOREY 1961– 75. Tow to Bruges 28.12.1988 to BU.
ALGERINE Cutter 10, 197bm. King, Upnor 3.3.1810. Wrecked 20.5.1813 West Indies.
ALGERINE Cutter 14. (See TIGRESS of 1808.)
ALGERINE Brig-sloop 10, ‘Cherokee’ class. Deptford DY 10.6.1823. Foundered 9.1.1826 Mediterranean.
ALGERINE Brig-sloop 10, ‘Cherokee’ class. Chatham DY 1.8.1829. Sold 30.4.1844 J. Ledger.
ALGERINE Wood screw gunvessel, 299bm, 126 × 23ft, 1-10in MLR. Pitcher, Northfleet, 24.2.1857. Sold 2.4.1872 in Hong Kong; became mercantile Algerine and BU 1894.
ALGERINE Composite screw gunvessel 835 tons, 157 × 29.5ft, 2-5in, 2-64pdr. Harland & Wolff 6.11.1880. Sold 10.5.1892.
ALGERINE Sloop 1,050 tons, 185 × 33ft, 6-4in, 4-3pdr. Devonport DY 6.6.1895. Sold 11.4.1919 as salvage vessel, wrecked 13.10.1923.
ALGERINE M/s, ‘Algerine’ class. Harland & Wolff 22.1.1941. Sunk 15.11.42 by Italian s/m AS CIANGHI off Bougie.
ALGIERS 5th Rate 32, 344bm. captured 1671. Wrecked 1673.
ALGIERS 1st Rate 110, 3,099bm. Pembroke Dock, ordered 1833, canx 1848.
ALGIERS Screw 2nd Rate 90, 3,340bm, 219 × 60ft. Devonport DY 26.1.1854. Sold 26.2.1870 Cooper Scott.
ALGIERS (See ANSON of 1860.)
ALGIERS (See TRIUMPH of 1870.)
ALGOMA (ex-London Istanbul) (ex-Ville de Liege) 1,849/13, Belgian. Hired as depot ship for m/s 1940. = AMBITIOUS 1941. Returned 21.6.45. Arr. Antwerp to BU 9.12.1950.
ALGOMA Corvette (RCN), ‘Flower’ class. Port Arthur SY 17.12.1940. Sold 1946 Venezuelan Navy, = CONSTITUCION.BU 1962.
ALGONQUIN (See VALENTINE of 1943.)
ALGONQUIN Escort (RCN) 3,551 tons, 426(oa) × 50ft, 1-5in Sea Sparrow 6-TT Helo, Limbo. Davie SB 23.4.1971.
ALICE M/s, ‘Catherine’ class. Gen. Eng., Alameda, 12.12.1942 for RN but retained by USN.
ALICE & FRANCIS Fireship 6, 266bm. Purch 1672. Expended 28.5.1672.
ALISMA Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Harland & Wolff 17.12.1940. Sold 1947, became mercantile Laconia. = Parnon (52) Lost 16.7.1954.
ALKMAAR 4th Rate 54, 1,041bm, 142.5 × 41ft. Dutch, captured 11.10.1797 Battle of Camperdown. Sold 30.11.1815.
ALLAHABAD Tlr, ‘Basset’ class (RIN) Hooghly Dk & Eng Co. Canx 3.1945.
ALLEGIANCE Sloop 14. American KING GEORGE captured 1779. captured 6.8.1782 by the French.
ALLEPIN Fireship 6, 233bm. Purch 1666. Foundered 1667.
ALLIANCE Storeship 20, 697bm, 130.5 × 35ft. Dutch ALLIANTE, captured 22.8.1795 off the coast of Norway. Sold 5.1802.
ALLIANCE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, 28.7.1945. Museum Gosport, from 6.81.
ALLIGATOR Sloop 14, 300bm, 96.5 × 26.5ft. Fisher, Liverpool, 11.11.1780. Captured 26.6.1782 by the French LA FEE.
ALLIGATOR 6th Rate 28, 599bm, 121 × 34ft. Jacobs, Sandgate, 18.4.1787. Sold 21.7.1814.
ALLIGATOR 6th Rate 28, 500bm, 114 × 32ft. Cochin 29.3.1821. Harbour ser vice 1846. Sold 30.10.1865 in Hong Kong.
ALLIGATOR Wood screw corvette 1,857bm, 225 × 43ft. Woolwich DY, LD 1.11.1860, canx 12.12.1863.
ALLINGTON CASTLE (ex-ALINGTON CASTLE, renamed 6.1944; ex-AMARYLLIS, renamed 5.43) Corvette, ‘Castle’ class. Fleming & Ferguson 29.2.1944. Arr. 20.12.58 Young, Sunderland, for BU.
ALMANZORA 15,551/1914 Hired as AMC 23.8.1915–14.01.19 6-6in, 2-6pdr. and as accommodation ship 1939–40. Arr. Blyth to BU 23.10.48.
ALMOND Tlr m/s, ‘Tree’ class, 505 tons, 150 × 27.5ft, 1-12pdr, Ardrossan DY Co 22.5.1940. Sunk by mine off Falmouth 2.2.1941.
ALNWICK CASTLE Corvette, ‘Castle’ class. G. Brown 23.5.1944. Arr. 12.51 King, Gateshead, for BU.
ALONZO Sloop 16, 384bm, 102 × 30ft, 14-24pdr carr., 2-18pdr. Purch 1.1801. Harbour service 1817. Scuttled 2.1842 outside Leith harbour.
ALOUETTE Cstr 570/1894, 1-12pdr. Hired as Fleet messenger 23.9.1915–7.15. ABS 7.15– returned 21.11.1919.
ALPHEA Schooner 10, 112bm, 68 × 20ft, 8-18pdr carr., 2-6pdr. Bermuda 1806. Sunk 10.9.1813 in action with French privateer RENARD.
ALPHEUS 5th Rate 36 (pine-built), 949bm, 143.5 × 38.5ft. Wallis, Thames 6.4.1814. Sold 10.9.1817 Mr. Bailey.
ALRESFORD M/s, later ‘Hunt’ class. Ailsa 17.1919. Sold 13.3.47 Dohmen & Habets, Liége.
ALSATIAN 18,486/1913 8-4.7in. Hired as AMC 7.8.1914–02.1919. 8-6in, 2-6pdr. Arr. Dalmuir to BU 24.11.34.
ALTHAM Inshore m/s, ‘Ham’ class. Camper & Nicholson 2.12.1952. Malaysian naval SRI JOHORE 1.4.59. BU 1967.
ALTON (ex-ARBROATH.) M/s, later ‘Hunt’ class. Ailsa. Canx 1918.
ALTON CASTLE Corvette, ‘Castle’ class. Fleming & Ferguson. Canx 12.1943.
ALVERTON Coastal m/s, ‘Ton’ class. Camper & Nicholson 18.11.1952. = THAMES 8.6.54; ALVERTON 2.62. Sold 11.70 to Eire, = BANBA. Sold 6.10.1983 Andover Shipping Co and BU in Spain.
ALVINGTON Frigate (RCN), ‘River’ class. Vickers, Montreal, 15.4.1944. = ROYALMOUNT 6.44. BU 11.47.
ALYNBANK 5,151 tons gross, Harland & Wolff 13.1.1925. 8-4in, 8-2pdr. Req 10.1939, Cd as A/A ship 4.1940. Sunk 9.6.44 as blockship Normandy. Salved and BU Troon 12.1945.
ALYSSUM Sloop, ‘Arabis’ class. Earle 5.11.1915. Sunk 18.3.17 by mine SW of Ireland.
ALYSSUM Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. G. Brown 3.3.1941. = ALYSSE 8.41 on loan to the Free-French; sunk 8.2.42 by U.654 western Atlantic.
AMARANTHE Brig-sloop 14, 290bm, 86 × 28ft. French AMARANTE, captured 31.12.1796 by DIAMOND off Alderney. Wrecked 25.10.1799 off the coast of Florida.
AMARANTHE 6th Rate 28, 498bm, 112.5 × 31.5ft. Dutch VENUS, captured 28.8.1799 Texel. BU 3.1804 Deptford.
AMARANTHE Brig-sloop 18, ‘Cruizer’ class, 386bm. Dudman, Deptford, 20.11.1804. Sold 12.10.1815.
AMARANTHUS Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Fleming & Ferguson 17.10.1940. Sold 1946. BU Hong Kong 1953.
AMARIS (See MARY B. MITCHELL.)
AMARYLLIS Sloop, ‘Arabis’ class. Earle 9.12.1915. Sold 30.1.23 Fryer, Sunderland.
AMARYLLIS (See ALLINGTON CASTLE.)
AMASTRA MAC, Oil Tanker, 16,000 tons, 482.75(oa) × 59ft. Lithgow, 18.12.1934. MAC 09.1943–09.1944, 1-4in, 8-20mm, 4 a/c. = Idas (51), BU Spezia 27.6.1955.
AMAZON 6th Rate 26, 471bm, 115 × 31ft. French PANTHERE, captured 1745. Sold 10.1763.
AMAZON 5th Rate 32, 687bm, 126 × 35ft. Wells, Rotherhithe 24.5.1773. BU 6.1794 Plymouth.
AMAZON 5th Rate 36, 934bm, 143 × 38ft. Wells, Rotherhithe, 4.7.1795. Wrecked 14.1.1797 on Île de Bas, off coast of France.
AMAZON 5th Rate 38, 1,038bm, 150 × 39.5ft. Woolwich DY 18.5.1799. BU 5.1817 Plymouth.
AMAZON 5th Rate 46, 1,078bm, 151 × 40.5ft. Deptford DY 15.8.1821. 24-gun 6th Rate 12.1844. Sold 9.1863 Lethbridge.
AMAZON Wood screw sloop, 1,040bm, 187 × 36ft, 2-6in, 2-64pdr. Pembroke Dock 23.5.1865. Sunk 10.7.1866 in collision English Channel.
AMAZON Destroyer 970 tons, 280 × 26.5ft, 2-4in, 2-TT. Thornycroft 29.7.1908. Sold 22.10.1919 Ward, Preston.
AMAZON Destroyer 1,330 tons, 323 × 31.5ft, 4-4.7in, 1-3in, 6-TT. Thornycroft 27.1.1926. Arr. 6.10.48 Troon for BU.
AMAZON Frigate Type 21, 2,750 tons, 384(oa) × 40.5ft, 1-4.5in, Seacat, Helo, 6-TT, Vosper/Thornycroft 26.4.1971. To Pakistan Navy 30.9.1993 = BABUR.
AMBALA Tlr, ‘Basset’ class (RIN). Alcock, Ashdown. Canx 3.1945.
AMBER (ex-Cape Barfleur) Tlr 457/1934, 700 tons, 1-4in, purch as A/S Tlr 01.1939. Sold 4.1946 = Etonian. Arctic Crusader (50), Etonian (52), Glenella (55).
AMBER (See MMS. 222.)
AMBERLEY CASTLE Corvette, ‘Castle’ class. Austin, Sunderland, 27.11.1943. Became weather ship Weather Adviser 9.60, = Admiral Fitzroy 77. BU Troon 1982.
AMBERWITCH Troopship (Indian) 1,010 tons, 175.5 × 27ft. Laird 1862. Sold c. 1890.
AMBITIOUS (See AIR POCKET, also ALGOMA.)
AMBLESIDE (See BEAUFORT of 1919.)
AMBOYNA Brig-sloop 10, 180bm. Dutch HAERLEM, captured 1796. BU 1802.
AMBROSE AMC 4,187/1903, 388(oa) × 47.8ft. Hired 20.11.1914 and cd 10.12.1914. 8-4.7in. Purch 20.10.15 and conv to depot ship; = COCHRANE 1.6.38. Sold 8.46 for BU. Arr. 13.11.46 Ward, Inverkeithing.
AMBROSE S/m base ship. Name borne by CARMANIA II from 1940–45, and by MFV 18 from 1945–2.51.
AMBUSCADE 5th Rate 40, 740bm, 132.5 × 36ft. French EMBUSCADE, captured 21.4.1746. Sold 9.2.1762.
AMBUSCADE 5th Rate 32, 684bm, 126.5 × 35ft. Adams, Deptford, 17.9.1773. Captured 14.12.1798 by the French BAYONNAISE; recaptured 28.5.1803 as EMBUSCADE. BU 6.1810 Deptford.
AMBUSCADE 5th Rate 40, 906bm, 143 × 37.5ft. French EMBUSCADE, captured 12.10.1798 off the Donegal coast. = SEINE 16.1.18 4. BU 8.1813.
AMBUSCADE 5th Rate 38, 1,085bm, 152.5 × 40ft. French POMONE, captured 29.11.1811 by ACTIVE and AL CESTE. BU 11.1812 Woolwich.
AMBUSCADE 5th Rate 36, 1,284bm, 159 × 42ft. Woolwich DY, LD 15.4.1830, = AMPHION 31.3.31 and launched 1846 as screw frigate.
AMBUSCADE Destroyer 935 tons, 266 × 27ft, 3-4in, 2-TT. J. Brown 25.1.1913. Sold 6.9.21 Petersen & Al beck.
AMBUSCADE Destroyer 1,170 tons, 322(oa) × 31.1ft, 4-4.7in, 6-TT. Yarrow 15.1.1926. Sold 23.11.46, BU Troon,
AMBUSCADE Frigate, Type 21, 2,750 tons, 384(oa) × 40.5ft, 1-4.5in, Seacat, Helo, 6-TT. Yarrow 18.1.1973. To Pakistan Navy 28.7.1993 = TARIQ.
AMBUSH Gunboat 2, purch 1815 West Indies. Sold 1815.
AMBUSH S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class, Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, 24.9.1945. Arr. Inverkeithing 5.7.71 for BU.
AMBUSH Nuclear s/m, ‘Astute’ class, BAe Systems, Barrow, LD 22.10.2003
AMEER (ex-USS ALAZON BAY) Escort carrier LD 1942 and retained by USN as LISCOMBE BAY.
AMEER (ex-UPBRAIDER, exier 11,420 tons, 492(oa) × 69.5ft, 2-4in, 16-40mm, 24 a/c. Seattle, Taco ma, 18.10.1942. Returned to USN 17.1.46 and sold as mercantile Robin Kirk. BU 1.10.1969 Taiwan.
AMELIA 5th Rate 38, 1,059bm, 151.5 × 39.5ft. French PROSERPINE, captured 13.6.1796 by DRYAD off Cape Clear. BU 12.1816.
AMELIA Wood screw gunboat, ‘Albacore’ class. White 19.5.1856. BU 10.1865 Pembroke Dock.
AMELIA (See ARGUS of 1851.)
AMELIA (ex-HAWK, renamed 1888) 416 tons, 146 × 23ft, 1-40pdr. Coast guard gunboat. = COLLEEN 1905; = COLLEEN OLD 1916; = EMER ALD 1918; = CUCKOO 1918. Sold 10.8.22 Cove & Distinn.
AMELIA M/s, ‘Catherine’ class. Gen. Eng., Alameda, 9.1.1943 for RN but retained by USN.
AMERICA Armed Merchantman, in service 1650–54.
AMERICA 5th Rate 44, 862bm, 139 × 37.5ft. Portsmouth, New England, 4.5.1749. = BOSTON 13.4.1756. Sold 13.9.1757.
AMERICA 4th Rate 60, 1,248bm, 154 × 43ft. Wells Stanton, Thames, 21.5.1757. BU 7.1771.
AMERICA 3rd Rate 64, 1,370bm, 158 × 45ft. Deptford DY 5.8.1777. Strand ed 1800, salved and became a prison ship; lent Transport Board 1804. BU 1807.
AMERICA 3rd Rate 74, 1,884bm, 182.5 × 48.5ft. French AMERIQUE, captured 1.6.1794 off Ushant at ‘Bat tle of the 1st of June’. = IMPETUEUX 1795. BU 12.1813.
AMERICA 3rd Rate 74, 1,758bm, 176 × 48.5ft. Perry, Blackwall, 21.4.1810. 4th Rate 3.27; target 3.64. BU 10.1867.
AMERSHAM (See COLLINSON.)
AMERTON Coastal m/s, ‘Ton’ class. Camper & Nicholson 16.3.1953. = MERSEY 5.1954–10.59; = AMERTON 10.59; =CLYDE 1960–71, BU Bo’ness 8.71.
AMETHYST 5th Rate 36, 1,029bm, 150 × 39ft. French PERLE, captured 29.8.1793 Toulon. Wrecked 29.12.1795 near Alderney.
AMETHYST 5th Rate 36, 1,046bm, 150 × 39ft. Deptford DY 22.4.1799. Wrecked 16.2.1811 in Plymouth Sound; wreck BU 4.1811.
AMETHYST 6th Rate 26, 923bm, 131 × 41ft. Plymouth DY 7.12.1844. Sold 16.10.1869 for use as cable vessel.
AMETHYST Wood screw corvette 1,970 tons, 220 × 37ft, 14-64pdr. Devon port DY 10.4.1871. Sold 11.1887 G. Pethwick.
AMETHYST 3rd class cruiser 3,000 tons, 373.75(oa) × 40ft, 12-4in, 8-3pdr. Armstrong 5.11.1903. Sold 1.10.20 Towers, Milford Haven.
AMETHYST (ex-Phyllis Rosalie) A/S Tlr 627 tons, 1-4in, purch 1935. Sunk 24.12.1940 by mine in Thames Estuary.
AMETHYST Sloop 1,350 tons, 299.5(oa) × 38.5ft, 6-4in, 12-20mm. Stephen 7.5.1943. Arr. 19.1.57 Demmel week & Redding, Plymouth, for BU.
AMETHYST (See WAVENEY.)
AMFITRITE (See under AMPHITRITE.)
AMHERST Corvette, ‘Flower’ class (RCN). St John DY 4.12.1940. To Venezuelan Navy 1945 as CARABOBO, but wrecked enroute in Gulf of St. Lawrence.
AMITY 36-gun ship, 375bm. Purch 1650. Sold 1667.
AMITY Fireship 6, 252bm. Purch 1673. Sunk 1673 as foundation at Sheerness.
AMITY Fireship 10, 100bm, 67.5 × 19ft. Purch 4.1794. Sold c. 1800.
AMITIE Schooner 14. French, captured 1804. Expended 3.10.1804 as fireship at Boulogne.
AMITY M/s, ‘Catherine’ class. Gen. Eng., Alameda, 10.2.1943 for RN but retained by USN; = DEFENSE.
AMOKURA (See SPARROW of 1889.)
AMPHION 5th Rate 32, 680bm, 126 × 35ft. Chatham DY 21.12.1780. Blown up 22.9.1796 Hamoaze.
AMPHION 5th Rate 32, 914bm, 144 × 37.5ft. Betts, Mistleythorn, 19.3.1798. Sunk 11.1820 as break water at Woolwich; wreck sold 9.1823 Joiliffe & Banks.
AMPHION (ex-AMBUSCADE, renamed 31.3.1831) Wood screw frigate, 1,474bm, 177 × 43.5ft. Woolwich DY 14.1.1846. Sold 12.10.1863 Williams. (See AMBUSCADE.)
AMPHION 2nd class cruiser 4,300 tons, 300 × 46ft, 10-6in. Pembroke Dock 13.10.1883, Sold 15.5.1906 King, Garston.
AMPHION Scout cruiser 3,440 tons, 385(pp)406(oa) × 41.5ft, 10-4in. Pembroke Dock 4.12.1911. Sunk 6.8.1914 by mine in North Sea.
AMPHION Cruiser, 6,908 tons, 562.25(oa) × 56.8ft, 8-6in, 4(later 8)-4in, 8-TT. Portsmouth DY 27.7.1934. = PERTH (RAN) 6.39. Sunk 1.3.42 by torpedoes in Sunda Strait action.
AMPHION (ex-ANCHORITE) S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Arm strong, Barrow, 31.8.1944. Arr. Inverkeithing 6.7.71 for BU.
AMPHION (See ANCHORITE of 1945.)
AMPHITRITE 6th Rate 24, 513bm 114 × 32ft. Deptford DY 28.5.1778. Wrecked 30.1.1794 Mediterranean.
AMPHITRITE (See POMONA of 1778.)
AMPHITRITE 5th Rate 40, 1,183bm, 151 × 41.5ft. Dutch, captured 30.8.1799 Texel. = IM PERIEUSE 1801. BU 4.1805.
AMFITRITE 5th Rate 38, 1,036bm, 150 × 40ft. Spanish, captured 25.11.1804 by DONEGAL off Cadiz. = BLANCHE 3.12.1805. Wrecked 4.3.1807 off Ushant.
AMPHITRITE 5th Rate, 1,064bm, 150 × 49ft. Bombay DY 14.4.1816. Lent 14.7.1862 to contractors at Plymouth. BU 1.1875 Devonport.
AMPHITRITE 1st class cruiser 11,000 tons, 435(pp) × 69ft, 16-6in, 14-12pdr. Vickers Maxim, Barrow 5.1.1898. M/l 1917 (4-6in, 1-12pdr, 354 mines). Sold 12.4.1920 Ward, Milford Haven.
AMPHITRITE Ship 328bm. Hired 1793–94.
AMRITSAR Tlr ‘Basset’ class (RIN) Garden Reach 19.12.1941. Sold 1947.
AMSTERDAM 5th Rate 32, 849bm, 140.5 × 37.5ft. Dutch PROSERPINE, captured 4.5.1804 Surinam. Sold 9.1815.
AMSTERDAM 1,777/1894, 1-4in, 1-12pdr. Cd as armed boarding ship 10.1914. Returned 29.9.1919.
AMSTERDAM 4,220/1930 Fitted out as LSI(S) 1943.
ANACONDA Brig-sloop 18, 387bm, 102.5 × 29ft, 18-9pdr. American privateer, captured 11.7.1814 in Chesapeake Bay. Sold 5.7.1815 in Jamaica.
ANACONDA Special Service Vessel. (RAN) 316 tons. 5.1945. Tx to Army 12.45.
ANACREON Brig-sloop 16, 151bm, 76 × 21.5ft. French, captured 7.1799. Sold 1802.
ANACREON Sloop, 16 in service 08.1804– 06.1805.
ANACREON Sloop 16, 427bm, 110 × 29.5ft. Laid down by Sutton, Ring more, 7.1809, frames to Plymouth DY 8.1810, launched 1.5.1813. Founder ed 28.2.1814 English Channel.
ANACREON Schooner built 1815. Tx to Customs 1816.
ANCHORITE (See AMPHION of 1944.)
ANCHORITE (ex-AMPHION) S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Arm strong, Barrow, 22.1.1946. Arr. Troon 24.8.70 for BU.
ANCHUSA Sloop, ‘Anchusa’ class. Armstrong 21.4.1917. Sunk 16.7.18 by U.54 off the north coast of Ire land.
ANCHUSA Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Harland & Wolff 15.1.1941. Sold 1946, = Silverlord. Lost 18.1.1960, salved and BU Mauritius 10.1960.
ANCYLUS MAC, Oil Tanker, 16,000 tons, 482.75(oa) × 59ft. Swan Hunter 9.10.1934. MAC 10.1943–10.1944, 1-4in, 8-20mm, 4 a/c. = Imbricaria (52), BU Spezia 4.12.1954.
ANDANIA 13,950 tons, 540(oa) × 65.25ft, Hawthorn Leslie 1.11.1921, 8-6in, 2-3in. Hired as AMC 6.9.1939. Sunk 16.6.1940 by UA.1 south of Iceland.
ANDELLE 1,832/22. Cd as m/s 10.1940. Repair ship 1943. BU 4.1945.
ANDES 15,620/1913. Cd as AMC 22.3.1915. 6-6in, 2-6pdr. Returned 22.10.1919. Arr. Faslane to BU 27.3.1952
ANDREW Carrack captured 24.8.1417, foundered 15.8.1420.
ANDREW (See ST ANDREW of 1622.)
ANDREW S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, 6.4.1946. Arr. Davies & Cann, Plymouth, 4.5.77 for BU.
ANDREW ANDERSON Tlr, ‘Castle’ type. Cook, Welton & Gemmell 1919. Sold 13.2.1922 = Normanby.
ANDREW APSLEY Tlr, ‘Castle’ type 290gr. Cook, Welton & Gemmell 2.6.1919. Sold 13.10.1919. = Callancroft. Served as MILFORD EARL in WWII.
ANDREW JEWER Tlr, ‘Mersey’ type. 327gr. Cochrane 1918. = NITH 1920, = EXCELLENT 6.1922. Sold 1946 = Malvern. BU 1954.
ANDREW KING Tlr, ‘Mersey’ type, 324gr, Cochrane 19.4.1917. = OUSE (1920). Sunk 20.1.1941 by mine off Tobruk.
ANDREW McWILLIAMS Tlr, ‘Mersey’ type, Cochrane, canx 1919.
ANDREW SACK Tlr, ‘Castle’ type, 265gr, Smiths Dk 5.7.1917. Sold 1919 = Alexandrite. (Served as NORTH NESS in WWII)
ANDROMACHE 5th Rate 32, 683bm, 126 × 35ft. Barnard, Deptford, 17.11.178 1. BU 9.1811.
ANDROMACHE (See PRINCESS CHARLOTTE of 1799.)
ANDROMACHE 6th Rate 28, 709bm, 130 × 35ft. Pembroke Dock 27.8.1832. Powder hulk 1854. BU completed 3.1875 Devonport.
ANDROMACHE 2nd class cruiser 3,400 tons, 314(oa) × 43.7ft, 2-6in, 6-4.7in. Chatham DY 14.8.1890. M/L 9.1909. Arr. 8.20 Castle, Plymouth, for BU.
ANDROMACHE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Canx 1945.
ANDROMEDA 6th Rate 28, 609bm, 121 × 36ft. Fabian, E. Cowes 18.11.1777. Lost in a hurricane 10.1780 off Mar tinique, West Indies.
ANDROMEDA 5th Rate 32, 721bm, 129 × 35.5ft. Sutton, Liverpool, 21.4.1784. Harbour service in 1808. BU 1811.
ANDROMEDA 6th Rate 24, 812bm, 130 × 37.5ft, 22-32pdr carr., 2-12pdr. American HANNIBAL, captured 31.1.1812. Sold 18.4.1816.
ANDROMEDA (See NIMROD of 1828.)
ANDROMEDA 5th Rate 46, 1,215bm, 159 × 42ft. Bombay DY 6.1.1829. Sold 24.12.1863 Barnett & Wake.
ANDROMEDA 1st class cruiser 11,000 tons, 435(pp) × 69ft, 16-6in, 14-12pdr. Pembroke Dock 30.4.1897. = POWERFUL II, TS 23.9.1913; = IMPREGNABLE II 11.19; = DEFIANCE 20.1.31. Arr. 14.8.56 Burgt, Belgium, for BU.
ANDROMEDA Sloop, ‘Anchusa’ class. Swan Hunter, launched 6.1917 as ANDROMEDE (French Navy).
ANDROMEDA Frigate, ‘Leander’ class Y160, 2,650 tons 372(oa) × 43ft, 2-4.5in, Seacat, Helo (later Exocet, Seawolf). Portsmouth DY 4.5.1967. To Indian Navy = KRISHNA Cd 22.8.95.
ANEMONE Sloop, ‘Acacia’ class. Swan Hunter 30.6.1915. Sold 6.9.22 Marple & Gillott.
ANEMONE Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Blyth 22.4.1940. Sold 1949, = Pelikan.
ANGEL Bomb 6, 132bm, 60 × 21ft. Purch 1694. Sold 1697.
ANGELICA Schooner 4 (Canadian lakes). Detroit 1771. Wrecked 12.1783.
ANGLER Wood screw gunboat, ‘Cheerful’ class. Devonport DY 8.3.1856. BU 1.1869 Haslar.
ANGLER Destroyer 335 tons, 210 × 19.5ft, 1-12pdr, 5-6pdr, 2-TT. Thornycroft, Chiswick, 2.2.1897. Sold 20.5.1920 Ward, Milford Haven.
ANGLESEA 4th Rate 44, 620bm, 125 × 33ft. Plymouth DY 1694 (first ship built here). Rebuilt Chatham 1725 as 5th rate 601bm. Sunk 1742 as breakwater at Sheerness.
ANGLESEA 5th Rate 44, 711bm, 126 × 36ft. Blaydes, Hull, 3.11.1742. captured 28.3.1745 by the French APOLLON.
ANGLESEA 5th Rate 44, 714bm, 126 × 36.5ft. Gorrill & Parks, Liverpool, 3.12.1746. Storeship 1759. Sunk 8.1764 as breakwater in Mounts Cove.
ANGLESEY Offshore patrol vessel 925 tons, 195.3(oa) × 34.2ft, Hall Russell 18.10.1978. To PO 31.7.2003, Sold to Bangladesh Navy 28.8.2003 = GOMATI 9.9.2003.
ANGLIA Yt, 362/1913. Purch as ABV 9.1939. Sold 1946.
ANGORA 4,300/1911. 3-4.7in, 2-6pdr, 320 mines. Hired as M/L 27.2.1915–4.19.
ANGUILLA ( ex-HALLOWELL) Frigate, ‘Colony’ class. Walsh Kaiser, Providence, R. I., 14.7.1943. Returned to USN 31.5.46. Sold Pro-Industry Products (NY) 8.5.1947 for re-sale & scrapping.
ANGUS McDONALD Tlr, ‘Mersey’ type, Cochrane. Canx 1919.
ANKING 3,470/24, Hired as Depot Ship 1941. Sunk 3.3.1942 (GMT), 4.3.42(Local time) by Japanese surface craft off Java.
ANN Ballinger, 120bm, 1417.
ANN & CHRISTOPHER Fireship 6, 266bm, Purch 1672. Sold 1686.
ANN & JUDITH Fireship 6, 264bm. Purch 1672. Lost in action 1672.
ANNA Storeship 8, 400bm, Hired 1739, purch 1741. Scuttled 28.8.1741 off Juan Fernandez Is. as unserviceable.
ANNA Schooner tender 12, 106bm, 73 × 19ft, 12-12pdr carr. Purch 1805. BU 1809.
ANNA TERESA Gunvessel, ex-barge, purch 6.1797.
ANNAN Frigate, ‘River’ class. Vickers, Montreal 12.9.1942. Tx 11.42 to USN as NATCHEZ.
ANNAN Frigate, ‘River’ class. Hall Russell 29.12.1943. Lent RCN 13.6.44–21.6.45; sold 27.11.45 to Danish Navy as NIELS EBBESEN. BU 1963 at Odense.
ANNAPOLIS (ex-USS MACKENZIE) Destroyer 1,060 tons, 314.3(oa) × 31.5ft, 3-4in, 1-3in, 6-TT. Cd in RCN 2.10.1940. TS 1944. BU 1945 Boston Iron & Metal Co.
ANNAPOLIS Frigate/Escort (RCN), 2,400 tons, 371(oa) × 42ft, 2-3in, 6-TT, Limbo, Helo, Halifax SY 27.4.1963. PO 1998 and moored N Vancouver as memorial 1999.
ANNE Ballinger, 120bm. Southampton 1416. Sold 26.6.1424.
ANNE GALLANT Ship 140/160bm. Built 1512. Wrecked 1518.
ANNE GALLANT Galley 50, 300/450bm. Last listed in 1559.
ANNE ROYAL (See ARK ROYAL of 1587.)
ANNE (See BRIDGEWATER of 1654.)
ANNE Yacht, 100bm. Woolwich DY 1661. Sold 1686.
ANNE 3rd Rate 70, 1,051bm, 151 × 40ft, 26-32pdr, 26-12pdr, 14-6pdr, 4-3pdr. Chatham DY 1678. Burnt 6.7.1690 at Battle of Beachy Head.
ANNE Fireship, purch 1702.
ANNE GALLEY Fireship 8, 302bm, 98 × 26.5ft. Purch 22.6.1739. Ex pended 11.2.1744 Toulon.
ANNE Armed Ship 14, 345bm, 104 × 28.5ft. Purch 1798. Sold 1802.
ANNE Seaplane carrier 4,083 gross, 367 × 48ft, 1-12pdr, 2 a/c. German mercantile Aenne Rickmers, seized 1914 and renamed 5.8.15. Became fleet collier 29.1.18 and sold 1919.
ANNE Brig 10, 120bm. Hired 1804–09; seaplane carrier 1915–20; yacht 1949–46.
ANNE (ex-AENNE RICKMERS, renamed 5.8.1915) 4,083/1911, 1-12pdr, 2 a/c. German merchant seized 1914 in the Mediterranean. Cd as seaplane carrier 1.1915. Collier (RFA) 1.18. Sold 1920 = Ithaki.
ANNET Tlr, ‘Isles’ class, Cook, Welton & Gemmell 25.3.1943. Wreck dispersal 1946 (DV 2). Sold 28.5.1958 = Ulva (Scottish FP). BU Dalmuir 08.02.1972.
ANSON 4th Rate 60, 1,197bm, 150 × 43ft. Ewer, Bursledon, 10.10.1747. Sold 25.6.1773.
ANSON Cutter 6, 95bm, 51 × 22ft. Purch 2.1763. Sold 15.7.1774.
ANSON 3rd Rate 64, 1,369bm, 159.5 × 45ft. Plymouth DY 4.9.1781. 44-gun ship 1794. Wrecked 29.12.1807 in Mounts Bay.
ANSON 3rd Rate 74, 1,742bm, 175.5 × 48.5ft. Steemson, Paul, near Hull, 11.5.1812. Harbour service Standgate Creek 1.1831; convict ship in Tasmania 1844. BU 1851 Hobart.
ANSON Screw ship 91, 3,336bm, 245 × 55.5ft. Woolwich DY 15.9.1860. = ALGIERS 11.1.1883. BU 4.1904 by Castle.
ANSON Battleship 10,600 tons, 330 × 68.5ft, 4-13.5in, 6-6in, 12-6pdr. Pembroke Dock 17.2.1886. Sold 13.7.1909 Clarkson, BU Upnor.
ANSON Battlecruiser, sister to HOOD. 36,000 tons, 8-15in, 12-5.5in, Armstrong, ordered 4.1916, LD 9.11.1916, work suspended 9.3.1917, canx 10.18.
ANSON (See DUKE of YORK.)
ANSON (ex-JELLICOE, renamed 2.1940) Battleship 35,000 tons, 745(oa) × 103ft, 10-14in, 16-5.25in. Swan Hunter 24.2.40. Arr. 17.12.57 Faslane for BU.
ANSWER Galleon 21, 200bm, 5-9pdr, 8-6pdr, 2-4pdr, 6 small. Built 1590. Rebuilt Chatham DY 5.1604. Sold 1629.
ANSWER S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Canx 1945.
ANT Schooner 8, 86bm, 61 × 19ft. French, captured 6.1797. Sold 23.3.1815.
ANT Cutter tender 4, 107bm, 71 × 21ft. Woolwich DY 1815. To DY ser vice 1817, later becoming R. Victoria Yard craft No 1. Sold 12.1.1869 Mr. Hapgood.
ANT Wood screw gunboat, ‘Cheerful’ class. Devonport DY 22.3.1856. BU 2.1869 Haslar.
ANT Gunboat (NZ), ex-merchantman, purch 1862. Sold 1864.
ANT Iron screw gunboat, ‘Ant’ class. Laird 14.8.1873. Boom defence 1917; target 1921. BU 6.26 Granton S. Bkg Co.
ANT Tender, purch 5.1913. 545 gross, 164.5 × 33ft. Murdoch & Murray 23.7.13. Sold 12.6.24 G. Nichol; = Rangitoro.
ANT 2 cutters hired 1803 and 1808.
ANTAEUS S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Can × 1945.
ANTAGONIST S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Canx 1945.
ANTARES M/s, ‘Algerine’ class. Redfern, Canada, 15.8.1942, on Lend-Lease. Returned USN 1.47.
ANTELOPE Galleon 38/44, 384bm, 4-9pdr, 13-6pdr, 8-4pdr, 13 small. Built 1546. Rebuilt 1577 and again in 1618 as 512bm. Burnt 1649 by Parliamentarians.
ANTELOPE 50-gun ship 828bm, Woolwich DY 1651. Wrecked 30.9.1652 off Jutland.
ANTELOPE (See PRESTON of 1653.)
ANTELOPE 4th Rate 54, 684bm, 131.5 × 34.5ft. Taylor, Rotherhithe, 3.1703. Rebuilt Woolwich DY 1741 as 858bm, 134 × 38.5ft. Sold 30.10.1783.
ANTELOPE Sloop 14. Lost 30.7.1784 in a hurricane off Jamaica.
ANTELOPE Brig 14 (Indian), 199bm. Bombay DY 1793. Sold after 1830.
ANTELOPE 4th Rate 50, 1,107bm, 150 × 41ft. Sheerness DY 10.11.1802. Troopship 1818; harbour service 1.1824. BU 7.1845.
ANTELOPE Schooner 14, 172bm. ex-Firefly, ex-Spanish prize. Purch 1808. BU 1814.
ANTELOPE Iron paddle sloop, 650bm, 1,010 tons, 170 × 28ft, 3 guns. Mare, Blackwall, 25.7.1846. Sold 20.9.1883 in Malta.
ANTELOPE Torpedo gunboat 810 tons, 230 × 27ft, 2-4.7in, 4-3pdr, 5-TT. Devonport DY 12.7.1893. Harbour service 1910. Sold 27.5.19 T. R. Sales.
ANTELOPE Destroyer 1,350 tons, 323(oa) × 32.25ft, 4-4.7in, 8-TT. Hawthorn Leslie 27.7.1929. Sold 1.46, BU by Hughes Bolckow, Blyth.
ANTELOPE Frigate Type 21, 2,750 tons, 384(oa) × 40.5ft 1-4.5in, 6-TT, Helo. Vosper/Thornycroft 16.3.1972. Lost in Falklands War 24.5.82.
ANTENOR 11,174/30.9.1924, 6-6in, 2-3in. Hired as AMC 25.8.1939–31.10.41. Troopship 1942. Arr. Blyth to BU 20.7.53.
ANTHONY Ship built 1417.
ANTHONY Ship in service 1588–99.
ANTHONY ASLETT Tlr, non-standard ‘Mersey’ type, Cochrane 22.2.1917. = ROTHER 9.1920. Sold 1922 Spanish Navy.
ANTHONY BONAVENTURE 36by the Dutch.
ANTHONY Destroyer 1,350 tons, 323(oa) × 32.25ft, 4-4.7in, 8-TT. Scotts 24.4.1929. Sold 18.8.47; BU 5.48 Troon.
ANTHONY MFV 1051 1952–57, sold 5.1974.
ANTIC (See AUK.)
ANTICOSTI Tlr, ‘Isles’ class, Collingwood SY 1.4.1942. Lent RCN to 17.6.1945. Sold 1946, = Gulöy. = Barbro (48), = Guiseppina (57)
ANTICOSTI (ex-Jean Tide) M/s Auxiliary (RCN) 1,076 tons 191(oa) × 43ft, Allied Shipping, Vancouver 1973. Offshore supply vessel purch 03.1988 and Cd 7.5.89. Deleted 2000.
ANTICYCLONE Admiralty wood Dr 100gr, Chambers 1918. Sold circa 1930.
ANTIGONISH Frigate (RCN), ‘River’ class. Yarrow, Esquimalt 10.2.44. PO 300.11.1966, BU 1968 Japan.
ANTIGUA Brig-sloop 14, 157bm, 71.5 × 23.5ft. Ex-privateer, purch 4.6.1757. Sold 13.8.1763 West Indies.
ANTIGUA Sloop 14, from 8.1779. Sold 12.1.1782.
ANTIGUA Prison ship 856bm, 145 × 37ft. French privateer EGYPTIENNF, captured 25.3.1804. BU 1816.
ANTIGUA (ex-HAMMOND, renamed 1943) Frigate, ‘Colony’ class. Walsh Kaiser 26.7.1943. Returned 31.5.46 USN. Sold Sub SB 1947, arrived Chester 47 for BU.
ANTOINE (See ORCHY.)
ANTONIA 13,867/21, 18,750 tons. Hired as repair ship 9.1939. Purch 4.42. = WAYLAND (q.v.) 1942. Sold 1.48, BU at troon.
ANTRIM Armoured cruiser 10,850 tons, 473.5(oa) × 68.5ft, 4-7.5in, 6-6in, 2-12pdr. J. Brown 8.10.1903. Sold 19.12.22 Hughes Bolckow, arr. Blyth 3.23 for BU.
ANTRIM GM destroyer, 5,600 tons, 520.5(oa) × 54ft. Fairfield 19.10.1967. Handed over to Chile 25.6.84, = AL MIRANTE COCHRANE. PO 2007, sold Turkish firm and BU Mexico 2007.
ANTWERP 2,957/1920 Hired as escort 12.1940–44, Fighter direction ship 1944–45.
ANZAC Destroyer leader 1,666 tons, 325 × 32ft, 4-4in, 4-TT. Denny 11.1.1917. To RAN 21.3.19. Sold 8.8.35 Abrahams & Wilson, Redfern, NSW, to dismantle; hull scuttled 7.5.36.
ANZAC S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong. Barrow. Canx 1945.
ANZAC Destroyer (RAN) 2,325 tons, 379(oa) × 41ft, 4-4.5in, 12-40mm, 8-TT. Williamstown DY 20.8.1948. Sold 24.11.75, BU Hong Kong.
ANZAC Frigate, ‘Anzac’ class (RAN), Transfield, Williamstown 16.9.1994.
ANZIO (See LST.3003.)
APELLES Brig-sloop 14, 251bm, 92 × 25.5ft. Woolwich DY 10.8.1808. Sold 15.2.1816.
APHIS River gunboat 645 tons, 230 × 36ft, 2-6in, 1-3in. Ailsa 15.9.1915. Sold 1947 in Singapore.
APHRODITE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Canx 1945.
APOLLO Storeship 20, 744bm, 127.5 × 36.5ft, 16-9pdr, 4-6pdr. French, captured 3.5.1747. Wrecked 12.4.1749 off Madras.
APOLLO (See GLORY of 1763.)
APOLLO 5th Rate 38, 984bm, 146 × 39ft. Perry, Blackwall, 18.3.1794. Wrecked 7.1.1799 on Haak Sand, Holland.
APOLLO 5th Rate 36, 956bm, 145 × 38.5ft. Dudman, Deptford, 16.8.1 799. Wrecked 2.4.1804 on coast of Portugal.
APOLLO 5th Rate 38, 1,086bm, 154.5 × 40ft. Parsons, Bursledon, 27.6.1805. Harbour service then troopship 4.1846. BU 9.1856.
APOLLO 2nd class cruiser 3,400 tons, 314(oa) × 43.7ft, 2-6in, 6-4.7in, 8-6pdr. Chatham DY 10.2.1891. Minelayer 8.1909. Arr. 8.20 Castle, Plymouth for BU.
APOLLO Cruiser 7,105 tons, 562.25(oa) × 56.8ft, 8-6in. 4(later 8)-4in, 8-TT. Devonport DY 9.10.1934. To RAN as HOBART 14.10.38. Left Sydney 3.3.62 for BU in Japan.
APOLLO Minelayer 2,650 tons, 418(oa) × 39ft, 4-4in, 8-40mm, 100 mines. Hawthorn Leslie 5.4.1943. Arr. 11.62 Hughes Bolckow, Blyth, for BU.
APOLLO Frigate, ‘Leander’ class Y160. 2,650 tons 372(oa) × 43ft, 2-4.5in, Seacat, Helo. Yarrow 15.10.1970.Sold to Pakistan 13.7.1988. HO 14.10.1988 = ZULFIQUAR, PO 2006 and deleted.
APPLEBY CASTLE Corvette, ‘Castle’ class. Austin, Sunderland. Canx 12.1943.
APPLEDORE M/s, later ‘Hunt’ class. Ailsa 15.8.1919. Sold 16.10.20, = Kamlawti.
APPLETON Coastal m/s, ‘Ton’ class. Goole SB 4.9.1952. Sold 24.9.72, BU 11.72 Neath.
APPROACH S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Canx 1945.
AQUARIUS Water tanker (RFA) 3,660 tons, 268 × 38ft. Ex-Hampstead, purch 1902. Completed as depot ship 6.07. Sold 14.5.20, mercantile.
AQUILON 6th Rate 28, 599bm, 118.5 × 34ft. Inwood, Rotherhithe, 24.5.1758. Sold 29.11.1776.
AQUILON 5th Rate 32, 724bm, 129 × 36ft. Young & Woolcombe, Thames, 23.11.1786. BU 9.1815.
AQUITANIA 45,647/1913. Hired as AMC 2.8.1914–5.9.1914. 12-6in. Arr. Faslane to BU 21.2.1950.
ARAB Sloop 16, 424bm, 107 × 30ft. French JEAN BART, captured 29.3.1795 by CERBERUS and SAN TA MARGARITA in English Channel. Wrecked 10.6.1796 on the Penmarcks.
ARAB Schooner 8, 86bm, 61 × 19ft. French ARABE, captured 6.1797. = ANT 1798. Sold 23.3.1815.
ARAB 6th Rate 22, 505bm, 110 × 33ft. French LE BRAVE, captured 24.4.1798 by PHOENIX off Cape Clear. Sold 20.9.1810.
ARAB Brig-sloop 18, ‘Cruizer’ class 390bm. Pelham, Frindsbury 22.8.1812. Wrecked 18.12.1823 off Belmullet, Ireland.
ARAB Brig81bm, 105 × 33.5ft, 4-32pdr, 12-32pdr. carr. Chatham DY 31.3.1847. Coastguard watch vessel No 18 24.5.1863. BU completed 1.6.1879 Chatham.
ARAB Composite screw sloop 720 tons, 150 × 28ft, 1-7in ML, 2-64pdr. Napier, Glasgow, 13.10.1874. Rated gunvessel 1876. Sold 1889.
ARAB Destroyer 470 tons, 218 × 20ft, 1-12pdr, 5-6pdr, 2-TT. Thomson 9.2.1901. Sold 23.7.19 Fryer, Sunder land.
ARABIS Sloop, ‘Arabis’ class. Henderson 6.11.1915. Sunk 10.2.16 by German TBs off the Dogger Bank.
ARABIS Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Harland & Wolff 14.2.1940. Lent to USN as SAUCY 30.4.42: returned to RN 1945 and = SNAPDRAGON. Sold 1946, = Katina.
ARABIS Corvette, modified ‘Flower’ class. G. Brown 28.10.1943. Arr. 8.51 Ward, Grays, for BU.
ARACHNE Brig-sloop 18, ‘Cruizer’ class 386bm. Hills, Sandwich, 18.2.1809. Sold 1.1837 Ledger.
ARACHNE Sloop 18, 602bm, 115 × 35.5ft, 18-32pdr. Devonport DY 30.3.1847. BU completed 12.2.1866 by Marshall, Plymouth.
ARARAT M/s, ‘Bathurst’ class (RAN). Evans Deakin 20.2.1943. Sold 6.1.61, BU Japan.
ARARAT Patrol boat (RAN) ‘Armidale’ class, named 10.5.2006, Cd 14.10.2006.
ARAWA (ex-Esperance Bay) 13,853/15.12.1921, 7-6in, 2-3in. Hired as AMC 25.8.1939– 25.7.41. Troopship 1941. Arr. Newport to BU 21.5.55.
ARAXES 5th Rate 36 (red pine-built), 1,070bm, 150.5 × 40ft. Pitcher, Northfleet, 13.9.1813. Sold 10.9.1817 Mr. Manlove.
ARBITER (ex-USS ST SIMON) Escort carrier 11,420 tons, 492.25(oa) × 69.5ft, 2-4in, 16-40mm, 24 a/c. Seattle Ta coma 9.9.1943. Returned to USN 3.3.46 and sold as Caracero. =President Macapagal (65), = Lucky Two(72), BU Taiwan 5.1972.
ARBROATH (See ALTON.)
ARBUTUS Sloop, ‘Anchusa’ class, Arm strong 8.9.1917. Sunk 16.12.17 by ‘UB. 65’ in St George’s Channel.
ARBUTUS Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. G. Brown 5.6.40. Sunk 5.2.42 by U.136 in Atlantic.
ARBUTUS Corvette, modified ‘Flower’ class. G. Brown 26.1.1944. BU 6.51 by Clayton & Davie, Dunston.
ARCADIAN S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Canx 1945.
ARC-EN-CIEL 4th Rate 50, 1,077bm, 146 × 41ft. French, captured 1756. Sold 6.9.1759.
ARCHER Gun-brig 12, 179bm, 80 × 22.5ft. Perry, Blackwall 2.4.1801. Sold 14.12.1815.
ARCHER Wood screw sloop, 973bm, 186 × 34ft, 2-68pdr, 12-32pdr. Deptford DY 27.3.1849. Arr. 15.3.1866 Castle, Charlton, for BU.
ARCHER Torpedo cruiser 1,770 tons, 225 × 36ft, 6-6in, 5-TT. Thomson 23.12.1885. Sold 4.4.1905 Forrester, Swansea.
ARCHER Destroyer 775 tons, 240 × 25.5ft, 2-4in, 2-12pdr, 2-TT. Yarrow 21.10.1911. Sold 9.5.21 Ward, Rain ham.
ARCHER (ex-Mormacland) Escort carrier 9,000 tons, 496(oa) × 69.5ft, 3-4in, 15 a/c. Sun SB, Chester, Pa., 14.12.1939 and to RN on Lend-Lease 17.11.41. To MWT 15.3.1945 as Empire Lagan; sail to USA for return USN 6.12.1945, sold as Anna Salen, = Tasmania(55), Union Reliance (61), BU New Orleans 3.1962.
ARCHER Patrol boat (RAN) 133 tons. 107.5(oa) × 20ft, 1-40mm, Walkers 2.12.1967. Sold 10.74 to Indonesia = SILIMAN
ARCHER Patrol boat, 49 tons, 68.2(oa) × 19ft. Watercraft 25.6.1985.
ARCTIC WHALE (Z.15) Admiralty Whaler ‘Z’ class, Smiths Dk 11.10.1915. Sold 20.4.1920 = Bermudian. (Served as BERMUDIAN, tug, in WWII).
ARCTURUS M/s, ‘Algerine’ class. Redfern, Toronto 31.8.1942 (on Lend-Lease). Returned USN 1946 and sold Greek Navy as PYR POLITIS. Expended as a target off Crete 1984.
ARD PATRICK (See LAMONT.)
ARDENT 3rd Rate 64, 1,376bm, 160 × 45ft. Blaydes, Hull, 13.8.1764. captured 17.8.1779 by the French off Plymouth; recaptured 4.1782 and = TIGER. Sold 6.1784.
ARDENT 3rd Rate 64, 1,387bm, 160.5 × 45ft. Stares & Parsons, Bursledon, 21.12.1782. Caught fire and blew up 4.1794 off Corsica.
ARDENT (ex-Indiaman Princess Royal) 3rd Rate 64, 1,422bm, 161 × 46ft. Pitcher, Northfleet, 9.4.1796. Harbour service 1812. BU 3.1824 in Bermuda.
ARDENT (See RATTLER of 1843.)
ARDENT Wood paddle sloop 801bm, 165 × 33ft, 5-2pdr. Chatham DY 12.2.1841. Arr. 2.3.1865 Castle, Charlton, for BU.
ARDENT Destroyer 280 tons, 202 × 19ft, 1-12pdr, 5-6pdr, 2-TT. Thornycroft, Chiswick, 16.10.1894. Sold 10.10.1911.
ARDENT Destroyer 981 tons, 260 × 27ft, 3-4in, 2-TT. Denny 8.9.1913. Sunk 1.6.16 at Battle of Jutland.
ARDENT Destroyer 1,350 tons, 323(oa) × 32.25ft, 4-4.7in, 8-TT. Scotts 26.6.1929. Sunk 8.6.40 by German battlecruisers off Narvik.
ARDENT S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Canx 1945.
ARDENT Frigate Type 21, 2,750 tons, 1-4.5in, Seacat, Helo, 6-TT. Yarrow 9.5.1975. Lost 21.5.82 in Falklands War to air attack.
ARDENT Patrol boat (RAN) 146 tons, 107.5(oa) × 20ft, 1-40mm. Walkers 27.4.1968. RANR 6.1982–7.1984, PO 7.1.1994 to navigation training vessel – Museum ship 1999.
ARD PATRICK Minesweeping sloop, ‘24’ class. Swan Hunter 6.6.1918. Sold 12.8.20 Moise Mazza; resold 1.12.21 Stanlee, Dover.
ARDROSSAN M/s, ‘Bangor’ (turbine) class. Blyth 22.7.1941. Sold 1.1.48, arr. 19.8.48 Thornaby- on-Tees for BU.
ARETHUSA 5th Rate 32, 700bm, 132 × 34.5ft. French ARETHUSE, captured 18.5.1759. Wrecked 19.3.1779 off Ushant.
ARETHUSA 5th Rate 38, 948bm, 141 × 39ft. Hillhouse, Bristol, 10.4.1781. BU 5.1814 Sheerness.
ARETHUSE 5th Rate 38, 1,064bm, 152 × 39.5ft. French, captured 29.8.1793 Toulon. = UNDAUNTED 1795. Wrecked 27.8.1796 on Morant Keys, West Indies.
ARETHUSA 5th Rate 46, 1,085bm, 151 × 40.5ft. Pembroke Dock 29.7.1817. Harbour service 6.1836; = BACCHUS 12.3.1844. BU 8.1883 Castle, Thames.
ARETHUSA 4th Rate 50, 2,132bm, 3,832 tons, 180 × 53ft, 10-8in, 40-32pdr. Pembroke Dock 20.6.1849. Undocked 9.8.1861 as screw frigate; TS 1874. BU 1934 Castle, Thames.
ARETHUSA 2nd class cruiser 4,300 tons, 300 × 46ft, 10-6in. Napier 23.12.1882. Sold 4.4.1905 Garnham.
ARETHUSA Light cruiser 3,500 tons, 436.3(oa) × 39ft, 2-6in, 6-4in. Chatham DY 25.10.1913. Wrecked 11.2.16 near Harwich after being damaged by mine.
ARETHUSA Cruiser 5,220 tons, 506(oa) × 51ft, 6-6in, 4-4in, 6-TT. Chatham DY 6.3.1934. Arr. 9.5.50 Cashmore, Newport, for BU.
ARETHUSA Frigate, ‘Leander’ class Y100, 2,650 tons, 372(oa) × 41ft, 2-4.5in, Limbo, Helo (later Ikara, Limbo, Helo), White 5.11.1963. Expended as a target, tow from Portsmouth 1.6.1991.
ARGO 6th Rate 28, 601bm, 118 × 34ft. Bird, Rotherhithe, 20.7.1758. BU completed 8.11.1776 Portsmouth.
ARGO Schooner 10. Purch 6.1780. Sold 4.1783.
ARGO 5th Rate 44, 892bm, 141 × 38ft. Baker, Howden Dock, 7.6.1781. Sold 11.1.1816.
ARGO (See ACTIVE of 1799.)
ARGO (See ESPIEGLE of 1880.)
ARGON (See ARGUS of 1904.)
ARGONAUT 3rd Rate 64, 1,452bm, 166 × 45ft. French JASON, captured 19.4.1782 West Indies. Harbour service 1797. BU 2.1831 Chatham.
ARGONAUT 1st class cruiser, 11,000 tons, 435(pp) × 69ft, 16-6in, 14-12pdr. Fairfield 24.1.1898. Sold 18.5.1920 Ward, Milford; arr. 4.9.21.
ARGONAUT Cruiser 5,450 tons, 512(oa) × 50.5ft, 10-5.25in, 8-2pdr, 6-TT. Cammell Laird 6.9.1941. Sold 16.11.55, BU Cashmore, Newport.
ARGONAUT Frigate, ‘Leander’ class, Y136, 2,650 tons 372(oa) × 41ft, 2-4.5in Seacat Helo (later Exocet Seawolf). Hawthorn Leslie 8.2.1966.Tow from Portsmouth to BU in Spain 25.1.1995.
ARGOSY S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Can × 1945.
ARGUS Sloop 10, 326bm, 103 × 27ft. French privateer, captured 1799. BU 4.1911.
ARGUS Brig-sloop 18, ‘Cruizer’ class, 387bm. Hill, Sandwich, 11.9.1813. Sold 11.7.1827 Mr. Freake; sale can x; resold 26.3.1828 Ledger.
ARGUS 5th Rate 36. Sheerness DY. Ordered 1812; canx 1812.
ARGUS Sloop 18, 480bm, 114 × 31ft. Portsmouth DY, LD 3.1831, canx 6.1831.
ARGUS Wood paddle sloop, 981bm, 190 × 33ft. Portsmouth DY 15.12.1849. BU 10.1881.
ARGUS Coastguard vessel 318bm, 357 tons, 136 × 22ft, 2-32pdr. Green, Blackwall, 1851. = AMELIA 16.4.1872 and = FANNY 4.1889. Hulked 1899; BDV 1902. Sold 1907 for BU.
ARGUS (See IMOGENE of 1864.)
ARGUS Coastguard vessel 380 tons, 130 × 23ft, 2-6pdr. Bow McLachlan 6.12.1904. = ARGON 1918. Sold 2.20.
ARGUS (ex-Conte Rosso, purch and renamed 8.1916) Aircraft carrier 14,450 tons, 565(oa) × 68ft, 4-4in, 20 a/c. Beardmore 2.12.1917. Harbour service 12.44. Sold 5.12.46, BU by Ward, Inverkeithing.
ARGUS Aux carrier, ex-Contender Bezant (11,445/81), purch 1984. 18,280 tons full, 574.5(oa) × 99.7ft, 4-30mm, 6 Helo, CNR Breda, Venice 1981. RoRo Container ship taken up from trade 1982. Purch 1984 and = ARGUS 25.3.1987. Used as aviation TS, operated as primary casualty receiving ship 1990–91.
ARGYLL (See BONAVENTURE of 1711.)
ARGYLL Armoured cruiser 10,850 tons, 473.5(oa) × 68.5ft, 4-7.5in, 6-6in, 2-12pdr. Scotts 3.3.1904. Wrecked 28.10.1915 on Bell Rock.
ARGYLL Frigate, Type 23/’Duke’ class, Yarrow, Glasgow 8.4.1989.
ARIADNE 6th Rate 20, 430bm, 108 × 30ft. Chatham DY 27.12.1776. Rebuilt Northam 1792 as 6th Rate 24. Sold 7.8.1814.
ARIADNE Advice boat, 187bm. Purch 5.1805. = DOVE 21.5.05, FLIGHT 1806. Foundered 9.1806.
ARIADNE 6th Rate 20, 511bm, 121.5 × 31ft. Pembroke Dock 10.2.1816. Coal hulk 1837. Sold 23.7.1841.
ARIADNE Iron paddle sloop (Indian), 432bm, 139 × 26ft. Laird 12.1839. Foundered 23.6.1842. off Chusan.
ARIADNE Wood screw frigate, 3,214bm, 4,583 tons, 280 × 51ft, 24-10in, 2-68pdr. Deptford DY 4.6.1859. Harbour service 1884; = AC TAEON 6.6.1905. Sold 11.12.22.
ARIADNE 1st class cruiser 11,000 tons, 435(pp) × 69ft, 16-6in, 14-12pdr. Thom son 22.4.1898. M/L 3.1917, 4-6in, 1-4in, 400 mines. Sunk 26.7.17 by UC.65 off Beachy Head.
ARIADNE II Tlr, 225 tons, Cochrane 24.7.1906, 1-6pdr. Hired 1914–19, decoy vessel, BU 1937.
ARIADNE Minelayer 2,650 tons, 418(oa) × 40ft, 4-4in, 4-40mm, 160 mines, Stephens 16.2.1943. BU Dalmuir and Troon 6.65.
ARIADNE Frigate, ‘Leander’ class Y160, 2,650 tons, 372(oa) × 43ft, 2-4.5in, Seacat, Helo. Yarrow 10.9.1971. To Chile = GENERAL BAQUEDANO, sailed for Chile 15.6.1992. PO 1998.
ARIEL 6th Rate 20, 429bm, 108 × 30ft. Perry, Blackwall 7.7.1777. Captured 10.9,1779 by the French AMAZONE and lent to the Americans until 1781. Lost 1793.
ARIEL Sloop 16,314bm, 98 × 27.5ft. Baker, Liverpool, 18.10.1781. Sold 8.1802.
ARIEL Sloop 18, 367bm, 106 × 28ft. Palmer, Yarmouth, 19.4.1806. Sold 12.7.1816 Deptford.
ARIEL Brig 14 (Indian), 160bm. Bombay DY 1809. Foundered 12.3.1820.
ARIEL Brigerokee’ class. Deptford DY 28.7.1820. Completed 9.1827 as packet brig. Wrecked 8.12.1828 on Sable Island.
ARIEL (ex-GPO vessel Arrow) Wood paddle packet, 149bm, 108 × 17.5ft, 1-4pdr. William Evans, Rotherhithe 1822. Tx to RN 1.2.1837. Sold 17.5.1850 T. Marston for mercantile use.
ARIEL Wood screw sloop, 486bm, 139 × 28ft, 9-32pdr. Pembroke Dock 11.7.1854. Sold 23.5.1865 Shaw & Thompson.
ARIEL 2nd class gunboat 436 tons, 125 × 22ft, 2-64pdr MLR, 2-20pdr. Chatham DY 11.2.1873. Coastguard 26.11.1877. Sold 8.1889.
ARIEL Destroyer 310 tons, 210 × 19.5ft, 1-12pdr, 5-6pdr, 2-TT. Thornycroft, Chiswick 5.3.1897. Wrecked 19.4.1907 on Ricasoli breakwater, Malta, while testing harbour defences.
ARIEL Destroyer 763 tons, 250 × 26.5ft, 2-4in, 2-12pdr, 2-TT. Thornycroft, Woolston, 26.9.1911. Sunk 2.8.18 by mine in North Sea.
ARIES M/s, ‘Algerine’ class, Toronto 19.9.1942, on Lend-Lease. Re turned USN 1946 and sold Greek Navy as ARMATOLOS. Expended as a target 25.5.1977.
ARIGUANI 6,746/20.10.1925, 2-6in, 1-3in, 2-MG. Hired as ocean boarding vessel 10.1940. Fighter Catapult ship 1941–43. Returned 1943.
ARISTOCRAT (ex-Talisman) Paddle 544 tons, Inglis 10.4.1935, 1-3in, 4-MG. Hired as A/A ship 8.1940. Ferry service 1945–46.
ARIUS (See MARY B. MITCHELL.)
ARK ROYAL (ex-ARK RALEIGH) Galleon 55, 694bm, 4-60pdr, 4-30pdr, 12-18pdr, 12-9pdr, 6-6pdr, 17 small. Deptford 1587. = ANNE ROYAL and rebuilt Woolwich 1608. Wrecked 4.1636 in Tilbury, Hope, and BU.
ARK ROYAL (ex-mercantile, purch 5.1914) Seaplane carrier 7,080 tons, 366(oa) × 51ft, 4-12pdr, 4 a/c. Blyth SB 5.9.1914. Depot ship 1923; = PEGASUS 21.12.34; catapult ship 4.41, accommodation ship 1944. Sold 18.10.46 as Anita I, BU 1950.
ARK ROYAL Aircraft carrier 22,000 tons, 685(pp)800(oa) × 94.75ft, 16-4.5in, 72 a/c. Cammell Laird 13.4.1937. Sunk 14.11.41 by U.81 off Gibraltar.
ARK ROYAL (ex-IRRESISTIBLE) Aircraft carrier 36,800 tons, 720(pp)810.25(oa) × 113ft, 16-4.5in, 58-40mm, 100 a/c. Cammell Laird 3.5.50. BU Cairnryan 9.80.
ARK ROYAL Aircraft carrier (originally designated A/S cruiser and referred to as INDOMITABLE, named ARK ROYAL 1.12.1978) 20,600 tons 685.8(oa) × 90ft, 3x 6-20mm Phalanx, 16 a/c, 6 Helo, Swan Hunter 2.6.1981.
ARLANZA 14,930/1911. Cd as AMC 23.3.1915. 6-6in, 2-6pdr. Returned 1.6.1920. Arr. Blyth to BU 15.9.38.
ARLEUX Tlr (RCN) 440 tons, 139(oa) × 25ft, 1-3in, Vickers, Montreal, 1918. Sold 30.6.1922, purch 9.1939, = GATE VESSEL 16 (1940). Sold 15.2.1946, sank 19.8.1948 off White Head Bay, NS.
ARLINGHAM Inshore m/s, ‘Ham’ class. Camper & Nicholson 1.4.1953. TRV 4.67. PO 3.9.1975, sold 19.9.1978 Gibraltar Underwater Contractors.
ARMADA 3rd Rate 74, 1,749bm, 176 × 48.5ft. Blackburn, Turnchapel, 22.3.1810. Sold 27.5.1863 Marshall, Plymouth.
ARMADA Destroyer 2,325 tons, 379(oa) × 40.25ft, 4-4.5in, 1-4in, 8-TT. Hawthorn Leslie 9.12.1943. Arr. 18.12.65 Ward, Inverkeithing.
ARMADALE CASTLE 12,973/1903, 8-4.7in. Hired as AMC 2.8.1914–11.9.1919. Arr. Blyth to BU 12.6.36.
ARMENTIERS Tlr (RCN) 440 tons, 139(oa) × 25ft, 1-3in, Vickers, Montreal 1918. Sold 1919 and purch 1923. Boom gate vessel 1941, sold 8.2.1946 = A. G. Garrish, by 62 = Laforce.
ARMERIA Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Harland & Wolff 16.1.1941. Sold 1947. = Deppie.
ARMIDALE M/s, ‘Bathurst’ class (RAN). Morts Dock, Sydney, 23.1.1942. Sunk 21.12.42 by Japanese aircraft off Timor.
ARMIDALE Patrol boat (RAN) ‘Armidale’ class, Austal Shipyard & Defence Maritime Services, Henderson, W. Australia, 5.01.2005.
ARMIDE 5th Rate 38, 1,104bm, 152 × 40ft. French, captured by a squadron off Rochefort 26.9.1806. BU 11.1815.
ARMS OF HOLLAND 34-gun ship. Dutch, captured 1652. Blown up by accident 1656 West Indies.
ARMS OF HORN Hulk, 516bm. Dutch, 4th rate captured 1673. Sunk 1694 as a foundation at Sheerness.
ARMS OF ROTTERDAM 3rd Rate 60, 987bm. Dutch, captured 1673. Hulked 1675. BU 1703.
ARMS OF TERVER 4th Rate 52, 523bm. Dutch, captured 1673. Given away 1674.
ARNO (ex-Portuguese LIZ, purch 3.1915) Destroyer 600 tons, 230 × 22ft, 4-14pdr, 3-TT. Ansaldo, Genoa, 23.12.1914. Sunk 23.3.18 in collision with destroyer HOPE off the Dardanelles.
ARNPRIOR (See COURIER of 1943.)
ARNPRIOR (ex-RISING CASTLE) Corvette, ‘Castle’ class. Harland & Wolff 8.2.1944. Sold 5.9.46 Uruguay as MONTEVIDEO. Sold 1975.
ARO (ex-Albertville, purch 10.1914) Depot ship 3,794 gross, 352 × 44ft. Transport 14.8.18. Sold 1.20 W.R. Davis.
AROHA Tlr, ‘Castle’ type (RNZN), Stevenson & Cook, Port Chalmers 8.9.1942. Sold 1946, = Matong.
ARPHA 602/1901. Hired as ABV 11.1939– 1.46.
ARRAN Tlr, ‘Isles’ class, Cook, Welton & Gemmell 16.11.1940. Sold 2.10.1946 = Assan Reis. = Professor Henking (52).
ARRAS Tlr (RCN), 440 tons, 139(oa) × 25ft, 1-3in, Kingston 1918. GATE VESSEL 15 (WWII), damaged by fire 11.1943, BU Halifax 12.1957.
ARRAS Sloop 644 tons, 246 × 31ft, 2-5.5in. French, seized 7.1940 Portsmouth. Free French accommodation ship 5.41; oil hulk 1943, re turned French Navy 1946.
ARRERNTE (See ARUNTA.)
ARROGANT 3rd Rate 60, 928bm. French, captured 10.3.1705. Foundered 5.1.1709 on passage to Port Mahon.
ARROGANT 3rd Rate 74, 1,644bm, 168 × 47.5ft. Barnard, Harwich, 22.1.1761. Sheer hulk c. 1801. BU 1810 Bombay.
ARROGANTE Gunvessel 14, 258bm, 92 × 26ft. French, captured 19.4.1798 by JASON off Brest. = IN SOLENT 31.8.1798. Sold 11.6.1818 J. Cristall.
ARROGANT (ex-Adasier, purch 7.8.1810) Store hulk, 1,439bm. Sold 1842.
ARROGANT Wood screw frigate, 1,872bm, 200 × 46ft, 12-8in, 2-68pdr, 32-32pdr. Portsmouth DY 5.4.1948. Sold 3.1867 Castle & Beech.
ARROGANT 2nd class cruiser 5,750 tons, 342(oa) × 57.5ft, 4-6in. 6-4.7in (rearmed 1902: 10-6in 9-12pdr). Devonport DY 26.5.1896. Depot ship 6.1911. Sold 11.10.23 Hughes Bolckow, Blyth.
ARROGANT Aircraft carrier 18,300 tons 650(pp) × 90ft, 32-40mm, 50 a/c. Swan Hunter, canx 1945.
ARROMANCHES (ex-LCT (8) 4086) Tx to Army 1958. Tx to Singapore 1970 =TANGLIN.
ARROW Sloop 20, 386bm, 128.5 × 30ft, 28-32pdr carr. Hobbs, Redbridge, 1796 and purch. Captured 4.2.1905 by two French frigates off Gibraltar.
ARROW Cutter 14, 152bm, 91 × 19ft. Deptford DY 7.9.1805. Used as breakwater from 5.1814. BU 5.1828.
ARROW Cutter 10, 157bm, 64 × 25ft Portsmouth DY 14.3.1823. BU 1.1852.
ARROW Wood screw despatch vessel, 477bm, 160 × 25.5ft, 2-98pdr. Mare, Blackwall, 26.6.1854. Sold 19.5.1862 Marshall, Plymouth.
ARROW Iron screw gunboat, ‘Ant’ class. Rennie, Greenwich, 22.4.1871. Sold 1.3.1922 W. H. Webber.
ARROW Destroyer 1,350 tons, 323.25(oa) × 32.25ft, 4-4.7in, 8-TT. Vickers Arm strong, Barrow, 22.8.1929. Damaged beyond repair 4.8.43 in Algiers harbour by explosion of ammunition ship Fort la Montée; stripped 1944 and BU at Taranto in 5.49.
ARROW Patrol boat (RAN) 146 tons, 107.5(oa) × 20ft. Walker 17.2.1968. Wrecked 25.12.74 Darwin.
ARROW Frigate Type 21, 2,750 tons, 384(oa) × 40.5ft, 1-4.5in, Exocet, Seacat, 6-TT, Helo. Yarrow 5.2.1974. To Pakistan Navy 1.3.1994 = KAIBUR.
ARROWHEAD Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Marine Industries, Canada, 8.8.1940. Lent RCN until 6.45. Sold 5.47, = Southern Larkspur. BU Odense, Denmark 1959.
ARTEMIS S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Scotts 26.8.1946. Sold 12.12.71 Pounds, Portsmouth.
ARTFUL S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Scotts 22.5.1947. Sold 16.6.72, BU Cairnryan.
ARTFUL Nuclear s/m, ‘Astute’ class, BAe Systems, Barrow, laid down 11.03.2005.
ARTHUR CAVANAGH Tlr, ‘Castle’ type 277gr. Bow McLachlan 1918. Sold 1920, same name. Hired as m/s 8.1939–1946.
ARTHUR HERWIN Tlr, ‘Strath’ type, 201gr. Fleming & Ferguson 19.12.1919. Sold 10.11.1919 = River Lossie. (Was RIVER LOSSIE in WWII).
ARHUT LESSIMORE Tlr, ‘Castle’ type, 276gr, Smiths Dk 9.3.1917. Sold 1919 = Avanurine. (Served as IRVANA in WWII).
ARTIFEX (ex-AMC AURANIA, renamed 1.12.1942) 13,984/6.2.1924, 8-6in, 2-3in, hired as AMC 28.8.1939. Conv to repair ship (20.10.41 on) and purch 0.3.1942. 19,000 tons, 520 × 65ft, 20-20mm. Completed conv 7.44. Sold 28.12.60 to Italian (La Spezia) ship breakers.
ARTIGO Ship, 140bm. French FERRONIERE, captured 1543. Sold 1547.
ARTOIS 5th Rate 40, 1,152bm, 158.5 × 40.5ft. French, captured 1.7.1780. Sold 2.2.1786.
ARTOIS 5th Rate 38, 984bm, 146 × 39ft, Wells, Rotherhithe, 3.1.1794. Wrecked 31,7.1797 near Rochelle.
ARTOIS (See DIGBY.)
ARUN Destroyer 550 tons, 225 × 23.5ft, 1-12pdr, 5-6pdr, 2-TT, altered to 4-12pdr, 2-TT in 1907. Laird 29.4.1903. Sold 30.6.20 Ward, Hayle.
ARUN M/s 890 tons(full), 156.3(oa) × 34.5ft, 1-40mm, Richards, Lowestoft 20.8.1985. To Brazilian Navy 18.9.1998 = HERCULES, then JOSE BONIFACIO, then BABITONGA.
ARUNDEL 5th Rate 32, 378bm, 109 × 28ft. Ellis, Shoreham, 13.9.1695, Sold by order dated 11.6.1713.
ARUNDEL 6th Rate 24, 509bm, 112 × 32.5ft. Chitty & Vernon, Chichester, 23.11.1746. Sold 9.7.1765.
ARUNDEL (See WARSPITE of 1758.)
ARUNDEL (See MEDWAY of 1755.)
ARUNTA Destroyer (RAN) 1,927 tons, 377.5(oa) × 36.5ft, 6-4.7in, 2-4in, 4-TT. Cockatoo DY 30.11.1940. Foundered 13.2.69 on passage to Taiwan for BU.
ARUNTA (ex-ARRERNTE renamed 1993) Frigate, ‘Anzac’ class (RAN), Transfield, Williamstown 28.6.1996.
ARVE PRINCEN (See HEIR APPAR ENT.)
ARVIDA Corvette, ‘Flower’ class (RCN). Morton, Quebec, 21.9.1940. Sold c. 1946, = La Ceiba.
ARVONIAN 2,794/1905, 3-4in, 3-12pdr, 4-TT. Hired as decoy ship 6.3.1915, purch 20.11.17. Sold 3.19. (On loan USN 11.17– 1.18 as SANTEE.) (See also BENDISH.)
ASAMA Tlr 284/1914. Sunk 16.7.1917 by U-boat whilst serving as decoy vessel.
ASBESTOS Corvette, modified ‘Flower’ class (RCN). Morton 22.11.1943. Sold 1947 to Dominica, wrecked Cuba enroute, later salved and BU New Orleans.
ASCANIA 14,013/20.12.1923, 8-6in, 2-3in. Hired as AMC 24.8.1939–29.10.42. Troopship 1942, LSI(L) 1943. Arr. Newport to BU 1.1.57.
ASCENDANT (See MOONRISE.)
ASCENSION (ex-HARGOOD) Frigate, ‘Colony’ class. Walsh Kaiser 6.8.1943. Returned to USN 31.5.46. Sold Hudson Valley Shipwrecking 16.10.1947. Arr. Newburg 1947 for BU.
ASCOT Paddle m/s, ‘Ascot’ class. Ailsa 26.1.1916. Sunk 10.11.18 by UB.67 off the Earn Islands.
ASGARD S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Scotts. Canx 1945.
ASH Tlr m/s, ‘Tree’ class, 530 tons, 150 × 27.5ft, 1-12pdr, Cochrane 13.12.1939. Sunk 5.6.1941 by mine Thames Estuary.
ASH LAKE Motor m/s (RCN) 255 tons 126 × 26ft Midland Bt Wks, Canx 22.10.1945 and completed mercantile = Cartier.
ASHANTI Destroyer 1,870 tons, 377(oa) × 36.5ft, 8-4.7in, 4-TT. Denny 5.11.1937. Sold 12.4.49, BU Troon.
ASHANTI Frigate, Type 81, 2,300 tons, 360(oa) × 42.5ft, 2-4.5in, 2-40mm, Limbo, Helo, 6-TT. Yarrow 9.3.1959.Expended as a target 14.9.1988.
ASHBURTON M/s, later ‘Hunt’ class. Ailsa, canx 1919.
ASHELDHAM Inshore m/s, ‘Ham’ class. Philip 30.9.1952. Malaysian SRI PERLIS 1.4.59.BU 1967.
ASHTON (ex-CHERITON) Coastal m/s, ‘Ton’ class. White’s SY, Itchen, 5.9.1956. Sold 24.6.77 for BU Middlesbrough.
ASIA Hulk, 420bm. Purch 11.12.1694. Foundered 7.4.1701 Bay of Bulls, Newfoundland.
ASIA 3rd Rate 64, 1,364bm, 158 × 44.5ft. Portsmouth DY 3.3.1764. BU 8.1804.
ASIA 3rd Rate 74, 1,763bm, 176 × 48ft. Brindley, Frindsbury, 2.12.1811. = ALFRED 1819; reduced to 50 guns 8.1828. BU 5.1865 Portsmouth.
ASIA 2nd Rate 84, 2,289bm, 197 × 52ft. Bombay DY 19.1.1824. Guardship 1858. Sold 7.4.1908 Merveille, Dunkirk.
ASIA Armed merchant, 4-4in. Russian, seized and cd 10.1918. Tx 28.7.1919 to ‘White’ Russians.
ASP (Gunboat No. 5) Gunvessel 12, 160bm, 75 × 22ft. Randall, Rotherhithe, 10.4.1797. Sold 1803.
ASP Sloop 16, 333bm, 99 × 28.5ft. French SERPENT, captured 17.7.1808 by ACASTA. Sold 16.3.1814.
ASP Cutter, purch 1826, sold 2.1829.
ASP (ex-GPO vessel Fury) Wood paddle packet, 112bm, 89.6 × 16.3ft, 1-6pdr, George Graham, Harwich 1825. Tx to RN 1837. BU 7.1881 Chatham.
ASPERITY S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Tyne. Canx 1945.
ASPHODEL Sloop, ‘Arabis’ class Henderson 21.12.1915. Sold 16.6.20 to Danish Navy as FYLLA.
ASPHODEL Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. G. Brown 25.5.1940. Sunk 9.3.44 by U.575 off NW Spain.
ASPIRANT Rescue tug ‘BAT’ class, Levingston SB, Orange NJ 10.10.1942, and to the RN 3.5.1943 on Lend-Lease. Returned to USN 1946.
ASSAIL Patrol boat (RAN) 133 tons, 107.5(oa) × 20ft, 1-40mm. Evans Deakin 18.11.1967. To Indonesia 18.10.1985 = SIGUROT.
ASSAM M/s (RIN), ‘Bathurst’ class. Garden Reach, Calcutta. Canx 3.1945.
ASSAM (See BUGLOSS.)
ASSAULT (Gunboat No. 4) Gunvessel, 159bm, 75 × 22ft. Randall, Rotherhithe, 10.4.1797. Became DY lighter 1817. Sold 6.6.1827.
ASSAYE Paddle frigate (Indian) 1,800bm. Bombay DY 15.3.1854. Sold 1863 as sailing vessel. Wrecked 1865 off coast of Ireland.
ASSAYE Torpedo gunboat (RIM) 735 tons, 230 × 27ft, 2-4.7in, 4-3pdr, 5-TT. Armstrong 11.2.1890. Sold 5.1904.
ASSIDUOUS Schooner 94bm, ex-pirate JACKAL, captured 1823, sold 5.5.25.
ASSINIBOINE (See KEMPENFELT.)
ASSINIBOINE Frigate (RCN) 2,260 tons, 366(oa) × 42ft, 4-3in, 2-40mm. Limbo, Marine Industries, Sorel 12.2.1954. Static TS 1989–94, sold to Crown Assets 1.1995.
ASSISTANCE 50-gun ship, 521bm, 121 × 31ft. Deptford 1650. Rebuilt 1699 as 607bm; rebuilt Limehouse 1712 as 710bm; rebuilt Woolwich 1725 as 750bm. Sunk 14.2.1746 as break water at Sheerness.
ASSISTANCE 4th Rate 50, 1,063bm, 144 × 41.5ft. Ledger, River Medway, 22.12.1747. Sold 11.8.1773.
ASSISTANCE Transport, 94bm, 59 × 19ft. Plymouth 1771. Sold 1802.
ASSISTANCE 4th Rate 50, 1,045bm, 146 × 41ft. Baker, Liverpool, 12.3.1781. Wrecked 29.3.1802 near Dunkirk.
ASSISTANCE (See ROYAL OAK of 1769.)
ASSISTANCE (ex-Babod) Discovery vessel, 420bm, 117 × 28.5ft. Purch 3.1850. Abandoned in Arctic 1854.
ASSISTANCE Screw storeship, 1,793bm, 283 × 36ft. Purch 16.1.1855. Laird 5.4.1855. Wrecked 7.6.1860 near Hong Kong; wreck sold 30.7.1860.
ASSISTANCE Iron screw storeship 2,515 tons, 250 × 38ft, 2 guns. Green, Blackwall, 26.9.1874. Sold 1897.
ASSISTANCE Repair ship 9,600 tons, 436 × 53ft, 10-3pdr. Purch 19.9.1900. Raylton Dixon 22.12.1900. HO to Messrs Ward in part payment for Majestic (CALEDONIA) and arr. 11.3.37 Pembroke Dock for BU.
ASSISTANCE Repair ship 7,100 tons, 416 × 57ft, 1-5in, 10-40mm. Mary land DD, Baltimore. 20.6.1944 on Lend-Lease. Returned USN 15.8.46.
ASSISTANT Transport 4, 110bm, 63 × 20ft, 4-3pdr. Purch 4.1791. Sold 12.10.1802.
ASSOCIATION 2nd Rate 90, 1,459bm, 165 × 45.5ft. Portsmouth DY 1697. Wrecked 22.10.1707 off Scilly Is.
ASSURANCE (See HOPE of 1559.)
ASSURANCE 42-gun ship, 456bm, 106.5 × 29ft. Deptford 1646. Sold 1698.
ASSURANCE 3rd Rate 70, 1,102bm, 146 × 42ft. French ASSURE, captured 12.10.1702. BU 4.1712 Chatham.
ASSURANCE 5th Rate 44, 823bm, 133 × 38ft. Heather, Bursledon, 26.9.1747. Wrecked 24.4.1753 on the Needles.
ASSURANCE 5th Rate 44, 898bm, 140.5 × 38ft. Randall, Rotherhithe, 20.4:1780. Troopship 7.1790; harbour service 3.1799. BU 3.1815.
ASSURANCE Wood screw gunvessel 681bm, 181.5 × 28.5ft. Green, Black wall, 13.3.1856. Sold 8.3.1870 Mar shall, Plymouth.
ASSURANCE S/m 1945 ‘A’ class. Scotts. Canx 1945.
ASTARTE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Scotts. Canx 1945.
ASTER Sloop, ‘Acacia’ class. Earle 1.5.1915. Sunk 4.7.17 by mine off Malta.
ASTER Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Harland & Wolff 12.2.1941. Sold 29.5.46, BU McLellan, Bo’ness.
ASTRAEA Storeship, c. 500bm. Spanish, captured 25.3.1739. Burnt 17.1.1743 by accident at Piscatagua.
ASTRAEA 5th Rate 32, 703bm, 126 × 36ft. Fabian, E. Cowes, 24.7.1791, Wrecked 23.3.1808 off Anegada, West Indies.
ASTRAEA 5th Rate 36, 956bm, 145 × 38ft. Guillaum, Northam, 5.1810. Harbour service 8.1823. BU 4.1851.
ASTREE 5th Rate 38, 1,085bm, 152.5 × 40ft. French, captured 6.12.1810 at reduction of Mauritius. = POMONE 26.10.1811. BU 6.1816.
ASTREA Wood screw frigate, 2,478bm, 240 × 48ft. Devonport DY. LD 21.10.1861, canx 12.12.1863.
ASTRAEA 2nd class cruiser 4,360 tons, 339.5(oa) × 49ft, 2-6in, 8-4.7in, 8-6pdr. Devonport DY 17.3.1893. Sold 1.7.20 Castle: resold and BU in Germany.
ASTRAL Admiralty wood Dr, 100gr Chambers 1918. Sold 6.10.1921 and foundered 10.1921.
ASTURIAS 22,071/7.7.1925, 8-6in. Hired as AMC 26.8.1939. Damaged by s/m torpedo 25.7.1943 and laid up. To MWT 22.5.44. Arr. Faslane to BU 14.9.57.
ASTUTE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, 31.1.1945. Sold Clayton & Davie 2.9.70, BU Dunston.
ASTUTE Nuclear s/m, ‘Astute’ class, BAe Systems, Barrow, ‘rolled out’ 8.6.2007, launched 16.6.2007.
ATALANTA Sloop 14, 300bm, 96.5× 26.5ft. Sheerness DY 12.8.1775. On sale list 13.3.1797; = HE LENA 1801. Sold 8.1802.
ATALANTE Brig-sloop 16, 310bm, 98 × 27.5ft. French, captured 10.1.1797 by PHOEBE off Scilly Is. Wrecked 1.2.1807 off Isle de Rhe.
ATALANTE Sloop 18, 416bm, 100 × 30ft. Bermuda 8.1808. Wrecked 10.11.1813 off Halifax.
ATALANTA Schooner 12, 225bm. American SIRO, captured 13.1.1814. Recaptured by Americans 1814.
ATALANTA Tender. Deptford DY 1816. Tx to Customs service 1817.
ATALANTA Wood paddle sloop (Indian), 620bm, 6 guns. Built on the Thames 1836. BU c. 1850.
ATALANTA Brig 16, 549bm, 110 × 35ft, 16-32pdr. Pembroke Dock 9.10.1847. BU completed at Devon port 12.12.1868.
ATALANTE Screw storeship, 295bm. Purch 7.1860. = MANILLA 19.7.1861; exchanged 28.2.70 for barque Ingeberg (= MANIL LA).
ATALANTA (See JUNO of 1844.)
ATHABASKAN (See IROQUOIS.)
ATHABASKAN Destroyer (RCN) 1,927 tons, 377.5(oa) × 37.5ft, 6-4.7in, 2-4in. 4-TT, Vickers Armstrong, Tyne 18.11.41. Sunk 29.4.44 in action with German TBs off the French Channel coast.
ATHABASKAN Destroyer (RCN) 1,927 tons, 377.5(oa) × 37.5ft, 8-4in, 4-40mm, 4-TT. Halifax SY 14.5.46, BU 7.69 in Italy.
ATHABASKAN Escort (RCN) 3,551 tons, 426(oa) × 50ft, 1-5in Sea Sparrow, 6-TT Helo Limbo. Davie 27.11.70.
ATHELENEY M/s, later ‘Hunt’ class. Clyde SB Co. Canx 1918.
ATHELING (ex-USS MISSION BAY) Escort carrier 11,420 tons, 492.25(oa) × 69.5ft, 2-4in, 16-40mm, 24 a/c. Kaiser, Vancouver, 26.5.1943. Retained by USN as MISSION BAY.
ATHELING (ex-USS ANGUILLA BAY) Escort-carrier (as No 1) Kaiser, Vancouver, 12.8.43. Retained by USN as CORREGIDOR.
ATHELING (ex-USS GLACIER) Escort carrier (as No 1) Seattle, Tacoma, 7.9.42; on Lend-Lease to RN 28.10.43. Returned to USN 13.12.46 and sold as Roma (50), BU Italy 2.11.1967.
ATHENE (ex-Clan Brodie) Aircraft transport, 10,700 tons, 487.75(oa) × 63ft, 2-4in, 40a/c, Greenock DY 10.1940. Mercantile Clan Brodie (46), BU Hong Kong 6.1963.
ATHENIENNE Gun-brig 14, 202bm. French, captured 8.6.1796 by ALBACORE off Barbados. Sold 1802.
ATHENIENNE 3rd Rate 64, 1,404bm, 164 × 44.5ft. French, ex-Maltese, captured 4.9.1800 Malta. Wrecked 20.10.1806 off Sicily.
ATHERSTONE Paddle m/s, ‘Ascot’ class. Ailsa 4.4.1916. Sold 12.8.27, = Queen of Kent (QUEEN OF KENT WW2).
ATHERSTONE Destroyer, ‘Hunt’ class Type 1. Cammell Laird 12.12.1939. Sold 23.11.57; BU Smith & Houston, Port Glasgow.
ATHERSTONE M/s 615 tons. Vosper/Thornycroft 1.3.1986.
ATHLETE Rescue tug ‘BAT’ class Levingston 18.5.1943 on Lend-Lease. Sunk 17.7.1945 by mine off Leghorn.
ATHOLL 6th Rate 28, 503bm, 114 × 32ft, 20-32pdr carr., 6-18pdr carr., 2-9pdr. Woolwich DY 23.11.1820. Troopship 7.1832. BU 4.1863 Devonport.
ATHOLL Corvette (RCN), modified ‘Flower’ class. Morton, 5.5.1943. BU 10.52 Steel Co. of Canada.
ATHOS (See GLEN.)
ATLANTIS S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Can × 1945.
ATLAS 2nd Rate 90, 1,950bm, 178 × 50ft. Chatham DY 13.2.1782. 3rd Rate 1802; harbour service 1814. BU 5.1821.
ATLAS Screw 2nd Rate 91, 3,318bm, 5,260 tons, 245 × 55.5ft, 34-8in, 1-68pdr, 56-32pdr. Chatham DY 21.7.1860. Not completed; lent 11.1884 Metropolitan Asylum Board. BU 1904.
ATMOSPHERE Admiralty wood Dr 101gr, Chambers 1918. Sold 2.8.1921, same name.
ATREUS 6,645/1911, 1-12pdr, 4-20mm, 192 mines. Hired as M/L, later controlled m/l base ship, 11.1939–5.1946.
ATTACK Gunvessel 12, 147bm, 75 × 21ft. Brindley, Frindsbury 1794. Sold 9.1802.
ATTACK Gunbm, 80 × 22.5ft. Adams, Chapel, 9.8.1804. captured 16.8.1812 by the Danes in Kattegat.
ATTACK Destroyer 785 tons, 240 × 25.5ft, 2-4in, 2-12pdr, 2-TT. Yarrow 21.12.1911. Sunk 30.12.17 by UC.34 off Alexandria.
ATTACK Patrol boat (RAN) 133 tons, 107.5(oa) × 20ft, 1-40mm, Evans Deakin 8.4.1967. Sold Indonesia 20.2.1985 =SIKUDA.
ATTACKER (ex-USS BARNES, ex-Steel Artisan) Escort carrier 11,420 tons, 492(oa) × 69.5ft, 2-4in, 8-40mm, 18 a/c. Western Pipe & Steel Co. 27.9.1941. On Lend-Lease 4.42; returned 5.1.46 to USN. Sold 1952 as Castel Forte, then Fairsky, = Philippine Tourist (2.78), arr. Hong Kong to BU 24.5.1980.
ATTACKER (See LST.3010.)
ATTACKER Training boat 32 tons, 65.6(oa) × 17ft, 1-20mm, Fairey Marine, Cowes, 1983. Sold to Lebanon 17.7.1992 = TRABLOUS (TRIPOLI) (1993).
ATTENTIVE Gun-brig 12, 178bm, 80 × 23ft. Bools & Co., Bridport, 18.9.1804. BU 8.1812 Deptford.
ATTENTIVE Prison ship, 359bm, 96 × 28.5ft. American brig MAGNET, captured 1812. BU in 1.1817 Portsmouth.
ATTENTIVE Scout cruiser 2,670 tons, 395(oa) × 38.25ft, 10-12pdr. Armstrong 24.11.1904. Sold 12.4.20 Ward, Pres ton.
ATTENTIVE II (See ADDER of 1905.)
AUBRIETIA (Q.13) Sloop, ‘Aubrietia’ class. Blyth SB 17.6.1916.Also used names WINTON and ZEBAL as Q Ship. Sold 25.10.22 R. H. Partridge.
AUBRIETIA Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. G. Brown 5.9.1940. Sold 29.7.46, re named Anrfinn Bergen. BU 10.1966 Norway.
AUCKLAND Wood paddle frigate (Indian), 946bm, 6-8in MLR. Bombay DY 9.1.1840. Harbour service 1863. Sold c. 1874.
AUCKLAND (ex-HERON, renamed 1937) Sloop 1,200 tons, 293(oa) × 37.5ft, 8-4in. Denny 30.6.1938. Sunk 24.6.41 by Italian aircraft off Tobruk.
AUDACIEUX Sloop, 14, 408bm, 114.5 × 28.5ft, French, captured 1797. Last listed 1801.
AUDACIOUS 3rd Rate 74, 1,624bm, 168 × 47ft. Randall, Rotherhithe 23.7.1785. BU 8.1815.
AUDACIOUS (See JAMES WATT.)
AUDACIOUS Battleship 6,010 tons, 280 × 54ft, 10-9in MLR, 4-64pdr MLR. Napier 27.2.1869. Depot ship 1902; = FISGARD 4.04; TS 1.1.06; = IMPERIEUSE, repair ship 1914. Sold 12.3.27 Ward. BU Inverkeithing.
AUDACIOUS Battleship 23,000 tons. 597.75(oa) × 89ft, 10-13.5in, 12-4in. Cammell Laird 14.9.1912. Sunk 27.10.14 by mine off Tory Island.
AUDACIOUS (See EAGLE of 1946)
AUDACIOUS Nuclear s/m, ‘Astute’ class, BAe Systems, Barrow, laid down 23.3.2009.
AUDACITY (ex-Empire Audacity) Escort carrier 11,000 tons, 475(oa) × 56ft, 1-4in, 6-20mm, 6 a/c. German Hannover captured 2.1940, completed as carrier 9.41. Sunk 21.12.41 by U.751 in Atlantic.
AUDIERNE (See CH.41.)
AUGUSTE 4th Rate 60, 932bm, 141.5 × 39ft. French, captured 1705. Wrecked 10.11.1716 on Island of An holt.
AUGUSTA 4th Rate 60, 1,068bm, 144 × 41.5ft. Deptford DY 1.7.1736. BU completed 6.7.1765 Portsmouth.
AUGUSTA (See CHARLOTTE of 1677.)
AUGUSTA 3rd Rate 64, 1,381bm, 159 × 44.5ft, Stanton & Wells, Rotherhithe, 24.10.1763. Burnt by American gunfire 23.10.1777 Mud Island, USA.
AUGUSTA Yacht, 184bm, 80.5 × 23ft. Deptford DY 1771. = PRIN CESS AUGUSTA 23.7.1773, sold 13.8.1818.
AUGUSTA Gunboat, ex-barge, purch 9.1795. In service in 1801.
AUGUSTA 3rd Rate 74. Portsmouth DY, LD 1806, canx 1809.
AUGUSTA Schooner ex-Policy, purch 1.1819, sold 24.4.1823.
AUGUSTA Schooner 2, 114bm (Indian). Bombay DY 1853. In service in 1866.
AUGUSTA M/s, ‘Catherine’ class. Gen. Eng., Alameda, 19.4.1943 for RN but retained by USN as DEVASTATOR.
AUGUSTINE Storeship 26, 360bm. Dutch, captured 1653. Sunk 1655 as foundation at Harwich.
AUGUSTUS Gunvessel 1. In commission 1798. Wrecked 7.7.1801 in Plymouth Sound.
AUK 168tons, Goole SB, 1903, 2-12pdr, 2-6pdr, 1-7.5in Howitzer. Hired as m/s 1914, also decoy ship. = ANTIC 1917–19.
AURANIA (See ARTIFEX.)
AURICULA Sloop, ‘Anchusa’ class. Armstrong 4.10.1917. Sold 1.2.23 J.Hornby.
AURICULA Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. G. Brown 14.11.1940. Mined 5.5.42 in Courier Bay, Madagascar, and foundered on the next day.
AURICULA Trials vessel, 981 tons, 170.5(oa) × 36ft. Ferguson 22.11.1979. Sold and towed from Portsmouth 14.6.1995 for commercial use = Lowland Searcher.
AURIGA S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, 29.3.1945. Sold 14.11.74 Cashmore, BU New port.
AUROCHS S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class, Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, 28.7.1945. Arr. 7.2.67 Troon for BU.
AURORA 5th Rate 36, 946bm, 144 × 38.5ft. French ABENAKISE, captured by UNICORN 23.1.1757. BU 4.1763.
AURORA 5th Rate 32, 679bm, 125 × 35ft. Chatham DY 13.1.1766. Burnt out 1770 on passage Cape to E.Indies.
AURORA 6th Rate 28, 596bm, 121 × 35ft. Perry, Blackwall 7.6.1777. Sold 3.11.1814.
AURORE 5th Rate 32, 860bm. French, captured 29.8.1793 Toulon. Prison ship 1799– c. 1803.
AURORA Sloop 14 (Indian), 247bm. Bombay DY 1809. Captured by the French 9.1810 off Mauritius.
AURORA 5th Rate 38, 1,083bm, 152 × 40.5ft. French CLORINDE, captured 26.2.1814 by DRYAD and EUROTUS in Atlantic. BU 5.1851.
AURORA Wood screw frigate, 2,558bm, 227 × 50ft, 1-110pdr, 8-8in, 4-70pdr, 8-40pdr, 18-32pdr. Pembroke Dock 22.6.1861. BU 12.81.
AURORA Armoured cruiser 5,600 tons, 300(pp) × 56ft, 2-9.2in, 10-6in. Pembroke Dock 28.10.1887. Sold 2.10.1907 Payton, Milford Haven.
AURORA Light cruiser 3,500 tons, 436.3(oa) × 39ft, 2-6in, 6-4in. Devonport DY 30.9.1913. Cd in RCN 1.11.20. Sold 8.27 A. A. Lasseque, Sorel.
AURORA Cruiser 5,270 tons, 506(oa) × 51ft, 6-6in. 8-4in, 6-TT. Portsmouth DY 20.8.1936. Sold 19.5.48 Chinese Navy as CHUNG KING; Communist TCHOUNG KING 1949. Sunk at Hulutoa 18/19.3.1950. Salved 1951 = HSUANG HO, later PEI CHING. Hulk KUANG CHOU (1955), believed BU 1960.
AURORA Frigate, ‘Leander’ class Y100, 2,650 tons, 372(oa) × 41ft, 2-4.5in, Limbo, Helo (later Ikara, Limbo, Helo). J. Brown 28.11.1962. Arrived Millom, Cumbria to BU 6.9.1990.
AUSONIA AMC 13,912 gross/22.3.1921, 520 × 65ft. Hired as AMC 6.9.1939. 8-6in, 2-3in. Purch and conv to repair ship (27.3.42–4.44). BU in Spain 9.65.
AUSTERE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Tyne. Canx 1945.
AUSTRALIA Armoured cruiser 5,600 tons, 300(pp) × 56ft, 2-9.2in, 10-6in. Napier 25.11.1886. Sold 4.4.1905 King, Troon.
AUSTRALIA Battlecruiser (RAN) 18,800 tons, 590(oa) × 80ft, 8-12in, 14-4in. J. Brown 25.10.1911. Sunk 12.4.24 as target off Sydney, NSW.
AUSTRALIA Cruiser (RAN) 9,870 tons, 630(oa) × 68.5ft, 8 (later 6)-8in, 4(later 8)-4in, 8-TT, J. Brown 17.3.1927. Sold 25.1.55, BU 7.55 Ward, Barrow.
AUTUMN Sloop 16, 335bm, purch 1801. = STROMBOLO, bomb vessel 15.2.1811. Sold 9.2.1815.
AVALANCHE Admiralty wood Dr. 100gr. Chambers 1918. Sold 1930 = Loch Alsh.
AVELEY Inshore minehunter, ‘Ley’ class. White, Cowes, 16.2.1953. Sold 21.5.1983 to Sea Cadets at Woolwich =TS Woolwich, replaced by WOTTON and tow to Portsmouth 2.1986. Arr. Pounds, Portsmouth 21.11 1986 to BU.
AVENGER (See LUCIFER of 1778.)
AVENGER Sloop 16, 330bm. French VENGEUR, captured 17.3.1794 Martinique. Sold 9.9.1802.
AVENGER Sloop 208bm, ex-Elizabeth. Purch 8.1803. Foundered off Heligoland 5.12.1803.
AVENGER (ex-collier Thames) Sloop 18, 390bm. Purch 5.1804. Wrecked 8.10.1812 off St Johns, Newfound land.
AVENGER Paddle frigate, 1,444bm, 210 × 39ft. Devonport DY 5.8.1845. Wrecked 20.12.1847 off north coast of Africa.
AVENGER (ex-Aotearor) 14,744/1915. Hired as AMC 14.12.1915. 8-6in, 2-6pdr. Sunk 14.6.1917 by U.155 west of Gibraltar.
AVENGER (ex-mercantile Rio Hudson) Escort carrier 8,200 tons, 492.5(oa) × 66ft, 2-4in, 40-40mm, 15 a/c. Sun SB Co., Chester, USA on Lend-Lease 27.11.1940. Sunk 15.11.42 by U.155 west of Gibraltar.
AVENGER (See LST.3011.)
AVENGER Frigate Type 21, 2,750 tons, 384(oa) × 40.5ft, 1-4.5in, Exocet, Seacat, 6-TT, Helo. Yarrow 20.11.1975. To Pakistan Navy 23.9.1994 = TIPPU SULTAN.
AVERNUS Torpedo boat (Australian) 16 tons, 1-TT. Built 1879, sold 12.1902.
AVOCA (ex-Avon) 11,073/1907. 8-6in, 2-6pdr. Cd as AMC 14.1.1916. Returned 29.10.19. BU Briton Ferry 3.2.38.
AVON Brig-sloop 18, ‘Cruizer’ class. Symons, Falmouth, 31.1.1805. Sunk 27.8.1814 in action with American WASP in English Channel.
AVON (ex-GPO vessel Thetis) Wood paddle packet, 361bm, 144 × 23ft, 2-6pdr. George Graham, Harwich 1825. Tx to RN 1837. Survey ship 1843. Sold 19.1.1863 Marshall, Plymouth to BU.
AVON Paddle gunboat (New Zealand), 40bm, 60ft, 1-12pdr. Purch 1862. Sold 12.1863 as coal hulk; later became Clyde.
AVON Composite screw gunvessel, 467bm, 603 tons, 155 × 25ft, 1-7in, 1-64pdr, 2-20pdr. Portsmouth DY 2.10.1867. Sold 26.4.1890 for BU Charlton.
AVON Destroyer 355 tons, 210 × 21.5ft, 1-12pdr, 5-6pdr, 2-TT. Vickers 10.10.1896. Sold 1.7.20 Castle, Plymouth.
AVON Frigate, ‘River’ class. Hill 19.6.1943. HO to Portuguese Navy 5.49 as NUNO TRISTAO. BU 12.1.1970.
AVON VALE Destroyer, ‘Hunt’ class Type II. J. Brown 23.10.1940. Greek AEGEAN 3.44– 5.44. Arr. 15.5.58 Young, Sunderland, for BU.
AWAKE S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Tyne. Canx 1945.
AWARE Patrol boat (RAN) 146 tons, 107.5(oa) × 20ft, 1-40mm. Evans Deakin 7.10.1967. RANVR Adelaide 11.1992 PO 17.7.1993. Deleted 1993.
AWATERE Tlr, ‘Castle’ type (RNZN). Patent Slip Co, Wellington 26.9.1942. Sold 1946, same name.
AWE Frigate, ‘River’ class. Fleming & Ferguson 28.12.1943. HO to Portuguese Navy 5.49 as DIOGO GOMES. BU 20.4.1969.
AXFORD Seaward defence boat, ‘Ford’ class. Simons 30.9.1954. To Nigeria 9.9.66 as KADUNA. Deleted 1975.
AYDON CASTLE Corvette, ‘Castle’ class. Kingston SY. Canx 12.1943.
AYLMER (ex-USS HARMON) Frigate, TE ‘Captain’ class. Bethlehem, Hingham, 10.7.1943 on Lend-Lease. Re turned to USN 5.11.45.
AZALEA Sloop, ‘Acacia’ class. Barclay Curie 10.9.1915. Sold 1.2.23 J.Hornby & Sons.
AZALEA Corvette, ‘Flower’ class. Cook, Welton & Gemmell 8.7.1940. Sold 5.4.46, = Norte. Sank 19.1.1955.
AZOV Schooner gunboat, 94bm, 64 × 18.5ft, 2 guns. German, Malta, 14.7.1855. Harbour service 1859. Sold 9.6.1899 in Malta.
AZOV (See MUTINE of 1880.)
AZTEC S/m, 1945 ‘A’ class. Vickers Armstrong, Tyne. Canx 1945.