HMS Thistle

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Thistle, after the thistle, the national flower of Scotland:

Royal Scots Navy

There was also an earlier HMS Thistle which served in the old Royal Scots Navy during the Anglo-Spanish War (1625–30) and Anglo-French War (1627–29).

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References

  1. Gossett (1986), p.78.
  • 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.
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