HMS Nimble
Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nimble.
- HMS Nimble (1778) was a 12-gun cutter that was wrecked in 1781 with the loss of 28 men.[1]
- HMS Nimble (1781) was a purchased 12-gun cutter that ran aground in 1808 in Stangate Creek in the Medway and was then sold.[2]
- HMS Nimble (1811) was a Nimble-class 10-gun cutter commissioned wrecked during a violent storm in the Kattegat on 6 October 1812.
- HMS Nimble (1813) was a new cutter that the Royal Navy purchased in 1813. The Navy sold her in 1816.
- HMS Nimble whose crew dislodged the Logan Rock whilst stationed off Land's End in April 1824.
- HMS Nimble (1826) was a 5-gun schooner employed off Cuba in the suppression of the slave trade until she was wrecked on 4 November 1834.[3]
- HMS Nimble (1860) was a gunvessel of 5 guns that had a relatively uneventful career before she became a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve in 1890 and was disposed of in 1906.
- HMS Nimble (1906) was built as the excursion steamer Roslin Castle. Acquired 1908 and converted into a tender. Based at Sheerness from 1908, and Chatham from 1922.[4]
- HMS Nimble (W 123) was a rescue tug launched in 1942 and sold in 1968.[5]
Related vessels
[edit]There was a revenue cutter Nimble, of Deal, that the French captured and that became the French privateer Dunqerquois. The hired armed cutter Princess Augusta destroyed her on 5 March 1808.
Citations
[edit]- ^ Hepper (1994), p. 61.
- ^ Gosset (1986), p. 69.
- ^ Gosset (1986), p. 105.
- ^ "Roslin Castle". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian MaritimeResearch Trust. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "HMS Nimble (W 123)". uboat.net.
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.
- Gosset, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
- Hepper, David J (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
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