HMS Hotspur

Four Royal Navy ships were named HMS Hotspur , named after the nickname of Sir Henry Percy :

• The first HMS Hotspur was a 36-gun frigate that was in service from 1810 to 1821.
• The second HMS Hotspur was a 46-gun frigate launched in 1828, used as the Hulk after 1859 , renamed HMS Monmouth in 1868 and sold in 1902.
• The third HMS Hotspur was an armored ramming ship launched in 1870 and sold in 1904.
• The fourth HMS Hotspur was an H-class destroyer that was used in World War II after being launched in 1936 and sold to the Dominican Republic in 1948 .

Fictional ships

• An HMS Hotspur plays an essential role in the third volume of the series of novels about Horatio Hornblower , which is entitled Hornblower on the Hotspur . It is armed with 20 nine-pounder cannons and four carronades .
• An HMS Hotspur appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Adventure of the Gloria Scott .
• An HMS Hotspur is the ship on which the protagonist Richard Bolitho serves in Alexander Kent's novel Brotherhood of the Sea .