HMS Abercrombie

Three ships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS Abercrombie , named after General Sir Ralph Abercromby (with his different spellings).

• HMS Abercrombie (1807) , a third class ship of the line with 74 cannons, launched in 1807 as the French ship of the line Aquilon and captured by the Royal Navy in the same year. It was scrapped in 1816.
• HMS Abercrombie (1915) , a monitor of Abercrombie class , which in 1915 was launched. It was sold in 1927.
• HMS Abercrombie (F109) , a Roberts-class monitor launched in 1942 and scrapped in 1954.

literature

• JJ Colledge, Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy, The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present . Chatham Publishing, London 2006, ISBN 1-86176-281-X , pp. 17 .