HMS Salamander

Ships bearing the name HMS Salamander include:

This list may be incomplete.
  • HMS Salamander (1687) was a bomb ship built in 1687 at the Chatham Dockyard. Sold in 1713.
  • HMS Salamander (1730), renamed from Basilisk while on the stocks, was a bomb ketch of 265​76⁄94 tons (bm) launched on 7 July 1730 at the Woolwich Dockyard. Sold in 1744 to the British East India Company.[1]
  • HMS Salamander (1745) was a fire ship purchased in 1745. Sold in 1748.
  • HMS Salamander (1757) was a fire ship purchased in 1757. Sold in 1761.
  • HMS Salamander (1778) was HMS Shark, converted to a fireship and renamed in 1778. The Navy sold her in 1783. She then became a Greenland whaler, merchantman, convict transport to Australia, South Seas whaler, merchantman again, and slave ship. She is last listed in 1811, but did not appear in newspapers after 1804.
  • HMS Salamander (1832) was an 818-ton, 4-gun paddle sloop launched in 1832 and broken up in 1883.
  • HMS Salamander (1889) was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat built in 1889 at the Chatham Dockyard. Sold for breaking in 1906.
  • HMS Salamander (J86) was a Halcyon-class minesweeper launched in 1936. She participated in the Second World War. She was scrapped in 1947.

Citations and references

Citations

  1. Hackman (2001), p. 340.

References

  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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