HMS Thistle

Several ships in the British Royal Navy were named HMS Thistle . Thistle is the English word for the thistle , which is the heraldic flower of Scotland :

• HMS Thistle (1808) was a10-gun schooner . The ship was launched in 1808 and sank in 1811.
• HMS Thistle (1812) was a brig with 12 guns. The ship was launched in 1812 and scrapped in 1823.
• HMS Thistle (1855) was a gunboat of Depper class . The ship was launched in 1855 and scrapped in 1863.
• HMS Thistle (1868) was a gunboat. The ship was launched in 1868 and sold in 1888.
• HMS Thistle (1899) was a Bramble-class gunboat. The ship was launched in 1899 and sold in 1926.
• HMS Thistle (N24) was a submarine of the T-class . The boat was launched in 1939 and was sunk by a German submarine in 1940.

In the literature

• HMS Thistle is a fictional corvette from Douglas Reeman's naval war novel Mediterranean Partisans ( To Risks Unknown )