HMS Trent
HMS Trent may refer to one of several British warships named after the River Trent:
- 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 Spitsbergen 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 (1863).
- HMS Trent, a monitor active in 1915.
- 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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