HMS Spencer

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Spencer. A third was renamed before being launched:

  • HMS Spencer was to have been an 18-gun brig sloop. She was renamed Diligence before being launched in 1795.
  • HMS Spencer (1795) was a 16-gun brig-sloop, formerly the civilian Sir Charles Grey. She was purchased in 1795, renamed HMS Lilly (or Lily) in 1800, and captured by the French in 1804.[1] She became the French privateer Général Ernouf. She blew up in 1805 while in an engagement with HMS Renard.[2]
  • HMS Spencer (1800) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1800 and broken up in 1822.

Other

Although a website identifies an HMS Spencer as being wrecked near Falmouth in 1754,[3] neither Colledge & Warlow, nor Hepper, have any trace of this vessel or wreck. She may have been a merchant rather than a naval vessel.

See also

Citations

  1. ↑ Hepper (1994), pp.105-6.
  2. ↑ "No. 15817". The London Gazette. 18 June 1805. p. 800.
  3. ↑ Lettens, Jan. "HMS Spencer (+1754)". wrecksite. Retrieved 8 May 2012.

References

  • 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. OCLC 67375475.
  • Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
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