HMS Grinder
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named Grinder:
- HMS Grinder (1809), was an armed British vessel used as a tender, captured in 1810 by Danish gunboats, recaptured in 1811, and sold in 1832.
- HMS Grinder, was a 14-gun screw sloop ordered in 1847, and renamed HMS Miranda before launch.
- HMS Grinder (1855), a Dapper-class gunboat of 232 tons and 3 guns, launched in 1855, and broken up in 1864.
Three dockyard tugs have also been named Grinder:
- Grinder, a wooden paddle tug, of 332 tons, was launched in 1868 and sold in 1919.
- Grinder was a 300-ton tug ordered in 1941 but captured on the stocks in the Fall of Hong Kong. The Japanese completed her in 1943 as the Nagashima.
- Grinder was a 710-ton paddle tug launched in 1958.
References
[edit]- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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