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 (with 4 × 12-pounder carronades) 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
  1. Gossett (1986), p.51.
  2. Gossett (1986), p.70.
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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.
  • Gossett, 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 1-86176-246-1.
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