HMS Racehorse

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At least nine warships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS Racehorse after the English word for racehorse :

HMS Racehorse (H11)
  • The first HMS Racehorse (1757) was a so-called "bomb vessel" with 8 cannons, which was purchased in 1757 and took part in the Seven Years' War . It is apparently identical to the ship of the same name, which was involved in the polar expedition of Constantine John Phipps in 1773 together with the HMS Carcass (this one with the midshipman Horatio Nelson on board) . In the American War of Independence , she had to take off the flag in front of a French naval association in 1778. It was renamed Sénégal and was recaptured in 1780 by HMS Zephyr (14 cannons) and the privateer Polly (16 cannons) off the coast of Gambia , but shortly afterwards destroyed by an explosion.
  • The second HMS Racehorse was an armed schooner with 12 cannons, which was captured by the American privateer Andrea Doria in 1776 .
  • The third HMS Racehorse , also an armed schooner, was involved in the capture of two Spanish treasure ships in Honduras in 1779 . It is probably identical to the ship of the same name, which was lost in 1781 by shipwreck off Beachy Head .
  • The fourth HMS Racehorse was a full ship sloop with 16 guns bought in 1781 . It was scrapped in 1799.
  • The fifth HMS Racehorse was a brig rigged Cruizer class sloop with 18 guns, which entered service in 1806, participated in the Napoleonic Wars and was lost in 1822 by shipwreck on the Isle of Man .
  • The sixth HMS Racehorse was a sloop with 18 guns that entered service in 1830, u. a. was used against pirates in China , from 1860 as a coal hulk in Devonport and was only broken up in 1901.
  • The seventh HMS Racehorse was a gunboat with 3 guns that was launched in 1860 and was lost in a shipwreck off the coast of China in 1864 .
  • The eighth HMS Racehorse was a torpedo boat destroyer of Greyhound class with 400 tons of displacement, which in 1900 was launched and was scrapped in the 1920s.
  • The ninth HMS Racehorse (H11) was a destroyer of the R-Class, which was launched in 1942, the Second World War took part and was scrapped 1949th

literature

  • William Laird Clowes: The Royal Navy. A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Vol. 4-6, London 1997ff (reprint of the 1899ff edition)
  • Rif Winfield: British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817 (Chatham Publishing, 2005)

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