HMS Trent

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Named after the River Trent, HMS Trent has been a name held by many British warships, including:

  • HMS Trent, frigate, captained by John Lindsay during the capture of Havana in 1762
  • HMS Trent, commanded by a young John Franklin on a northern voyage as far as Spitzbergen in 1818. He also first met his future wife Eleanor Anne Porden on the ship in 1818.
  • HMS Trent, 17-gun sloop, ordered in November 1860 as one of the Perseus class, selected for conversion to an ironclad, renamed HMS Research.
  • HMS Trent (K243), River class frigate, transferred to the Royal Indian Navy April 1946 and renamed Kurki, later renamed Investigator and made into a survey vessel. [1]

See also

  • The mail steamer RMS Trent, at the centre of the Trent Affair.
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