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

• 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.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.