HMS Dee

A number of ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dee, after one or other of the British rivers called the Dee.

• HMS Dee (1814), a Conway-class sixth-rate frigate (or corvette) built by Jabez Bailey in Ipswich, launched in May 1814, commissioned at Sheerness in October 1814, and sold in July 1819.^[1][2][3]
• HMS Dee, was to have been a Cherokee-class flush-decked brig (or brig-sloop) ordered from Woolwich dockyard in March 1823, and re-ordered as a paddle-steamer in May 1824.^[4][5]
• HMS Dee (1832), a paddle steamer built by Woolwich dockyard, launched in May 1832, that served until June 1871, and broken up at Sheerness in October 1871.^[6][7]
• HMS Dee (1877), a Medina-class flatiron gunboat built by Palmer, launched in April 1877, and sold in 1902.^[8][9]
• HMS Dee (1903), a River-class destroyer built by Palmer, launched in September 1903, completed in May 1903,^[10] and sold in 1919.^[11]
• HMS Beckford, a Ford-class patrol boat launched in 1955 was renamed HMS Dee whilst serving as the training tender to the Mersey Division of the Royal Naval Reserve.

Notes

References

• Roger Chesneau, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-21, published Conway Maritime Press, 1985. ISBN 0-85177-245-5
• Robert Gardiner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, published Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4
• David Lyon and Rif Winfield, The Sail & Steam Navy List, all the ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889, pub Chatham Publishing, 2003, ISBN 1-86176-032-9
• Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817, pub Chatham Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-86176-246-1
• Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers & Fates, pub Seaforth Publishing, 2014, ISBN 1-84832-169-4