HMS Charwell

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Charwell (or Cherwell), after the River Cherwell, a tributary of the River Thames:

  • HMS Charwell was the 18-gun French corvette Aurore, which HMS Thames captured in 1801.[1] She was sold in 1813.[2]
  • HMS Charwell was the 16-gun ship-sloop HMS Earl of Moira, launched in 1805 on the Great Lakes, and renamed Charwell in 1814. She was sold in 1837.[3]
  • HMS Cherwell (1903) was a destroyer launched in 1903 and sold in 1919.
  • HMS Cherwell was a Mersey-class Royal Navy trawler launched as HMS James Jones in 1918, renamed Cherwell in 1920, used as a boom-defense vessel in 1942, and sold in 1946.

Citations and references

Citations

  1. "No. 15334". The London Gazette. 3 February 1801. p. 149.
  2. Winfield (2008), p.268.
  3. Winfield (2008), pp. 273–74.

References

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