HMS Nautilus

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor, including:

  • HMS Nautilus (1762) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1762 and put up for sale in 1780
  • HMS Nautilus (1784) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1784 and wrecked in 1799. All 125 men of her crew were saved.[1]
  • HMS Nautilus (1804) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1807. It took six days for help to arrive and 62 of the 122 men aboard died.[2]
  • HMS Nautilus (1807) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1807 and broken up in 1823
  • HMS Nautilus (1830) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1830. She became a training ship in 1852, was hulked in 1872 and broken up in 1878
  • HMS Nautilus (1879) was an 8-gun training brig launched in 1879 and sold in 1905
  • HMS Nautilus (1910) was a Beagle-class destroyer launched in 1910. She was renamed HMS Grampus in 1913 and was sold in 1920
  • HMS Nautilus (1914) was a submarine launched in 1914. She was renamed HMS N1 in 1918 and was sold in 1922

See also
  • Ships named Nautilus
  • HCS Nautilus was launched in 1806 by the [{Bombay Dockyard]] for the naval arm of the British East India Company. Nautilus was wrecked in 1834 on the Malabar Coast.

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Grocott (1997), pp. 72–3.
  2. Grocott (1997), pp. 225–226.

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.
  • Grocott, Terence (1997) Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras (Chatham). ISBN 1-86176-030-2
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