HMS Eaglet

Ship's badge of HMS EAGLET.
Using a rake, Wren Unknown moves a 'ship' across the numbered grid map on the Plotting Table of the Operations Room at HMS EAGLET. The Chief of Staff stands to her left, on the right-hand side of the photograph, and watches the action unfold. More Wrens can be seen at work around the table, including one using the telephone, and a member of the Royal Navy can also be seen in the background.
A Harvest Festival Thanksgiving Service, at HMS EAGLET Naval Base. 10 October 1942.

Five ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Eaglet:

  • HMS Eaglet (1655) was an 8-gun ketch built in 1655 and sold in 1674.
  • HMS Eaglet (1691) was a 10-gun ketch launched in 1691 and captured in 1693 by the French off the Isle of Arran.
  • HMS Eaglet was previously HMS Eagle, renamed whilst a training ship in 1918, lost in a fire in 1926, and the wreck sold in 1927.
  • HMS Eaglet was a paddle vessel, hired between 1855 and 1857.
The current HMS EAGLET is situated in RN HQ, Liverpool. 2018 is the 100th Year since the commissioning of HMS EAGLET. A series of "EAGLET 100" events are scheduled throughout 2018 to celebrate this incredible achievement.

The third HMS Eaglet became the Royal Naval Reserve training centre for Merseyside, North West England and North Wales. After her destruction in a fire in 1926, one other ship took the name whilst serving as the home of the centre.

  • HMS Sir Bevis (1918), a 24-class sloop was HMS Eaglet from 1926 until she was broken up in 1971.

See also

  • View to the marina on the left and HMS CHARGER (P292) one of URNU's (University Royal Navy Unit) P2000 training vessel's at HMS EAGLET on the right.
    HMS Eagle - for similarly named ships of the Royal Navy.
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