HMS Pigeon
Several vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pigeon.
- HMS Pigeon (1805) was the ex-mercantile Fanny, purchased in May 1805 and fitted and armed as a dispatch cutter. She was wrecked three quarters of a mile from the town of Rysum in East Friesland in November 1805 through the inexperience of her pilot.[1]
- HMS Pigeon (1806) was a Cuckoo-class schooner launched in 1806 and wrecked off Margate in 1809.[2]
- Pigeon: See HMS Variable (1827).
- HMS Pigeon (1854) was the mercantile wood paddle tender Brothers purchased at Constantinople in 1854 and sold there in 1856.
- HMS Pigeon (1860) was a wood screw Britomart-class gunboat built in 1860 and broken up in 1876.
- HMS Pigeon (1888) was a composite screw gunboat built in 1888 and sold in 1906.
- HMS Pigeon (1916) was an Admiralty M-class destroyer built in 1916 and sold in 1921.
Citations
- ^ Gosset (1986), p. 51.
- ^ Gosset (1986), p. 70.
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.
- Gosset, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
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