HMS Hunter
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Hunter:
- Template:Ship was a dogger captured in 1646 and sold in 1649.
- Template:Ship was a 10-gun fire ship, previously the French sloop Chasseur, captured in 1652. She was burnt in 1653.
- Template:Ship was a 6-gun Royalist vessel, captured by the Parliamentarians in 1656. She foundered in 1661.
- Template:HMS was a 30-gun fifth rate captured from the Dutch in 1672. She was on the Navy List until 1677.
- Template:HMS was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and sold in 1683.
- Template:HMS was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1690. She was rebuilt as a 24-gun sixth rate in 1710 and was captured by the Spanish later that year.
- Template:HMS was a 10-gun fire ship purchased in 1739 and renamed HMS Vulcan in 1740. She was hulked in 1743.
- Template:HMS was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756. She was captured in 1775 by an American privateer, but was recaptured in 1776 by Template:HMS. Hunter was declared unfit for service and sold in 1780.
- Template:HMS was an 8-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771.
- Template:HMS was a 16-gun sloop purchased, one of three ordered from builders in Bermuda in 1796 (the others being HMS Dasher and HMS Driver). She was launched in 1796, and wrecked in 1797.
- Template:HMS was an 18-gun brig-sloop purchased in 1801 and broken up in 1809.
- Template:HMS was a 10-gun brig launched in 1805 and captured by the Americans in 1813.
- Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass wood screw gunboat launched in 1856. She was placed on the sale list in 1869 and was sold in 1884.
- Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1895 and sold in 1912.
- Template:HMS was an H-class destroyer launched in 1936 and sunk in 1940.
- Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass, launched for the US Navy as USS Block Island, loaned to the Royal Navy, at first as HMS Trailer and then from late 1942 as HMS Hunter. She was returned to the US Navy in 1945.
- Template:HMS was a Tank landing ship launched in 1945 as Template:HMS. She was renamed HMS Hunter in 1947, and transferred to the Ministry of Transport in 1956, being renamed Template:SS. She was broken up in 1962.
- Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass patrol and training boat launched in 1983 and sold to Lebanon in 1991.
See alsoEdit
- Template:HMCS, a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve division in Windsor, Ontario
ReferencesEdit
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