HMS Racehorse
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Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racehorse :
- HMS Racehorse (1757) was an 18-gun privateer captured from the French in 1757. She was on Arctic discovery in 1773. She was renamed Thunder (and re-classed as a bomb vessel) on 24 October 1775. The French captured Thunder off Sandy Hook on 14 August 1778.
- HMS Race Horse was the mercantile Hercules that the Royal Navy purchased at Jamaica in 1776, and that the American Andrea Doria captured on 24 December 1776. Surprise ' s crew destroyed her in 1777 at Delaware Bay to prevent the Royal Navy from recapturing her.
- HMS Racehorse (1777) was a 16-gun sloop purchased in 1777 and shortly thereafter renamed Senegal . The French 74-gun Hector captured her on 14 August 1778. The French renamed her Sénégal . Zephyr recaptured her on 2 November 1780 after an engagement that lasted five hours and in which the French lost 12 killed and 28 wounded, while the British lost two killed and four wounded. [1] The Royal Navy took her back into service as HMS Senegal . Senegal was at Gorée being repaired when she caught fire and exploded on 22 November, with the loss of captain and 22 men. [2] [3] [4]
- HMS Racehorse (1778) was a 10-gun schooner purchased in 1778. She was wrecked in 1779 at Beachy Head .
- HMS Racehorse (1781) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1781. She was broken up in 1799.
- HMS Racehorse (1806) was an 18-gun Cruizer -class brig-sloop launched in February 1806. She was wrecked in 1822 off the Isle of Man .
- HMS Racehorse (1830) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1830. She became a coal hulk in 1860 and was sold in 1901.
- HMS Racehorse (1860) was a wood screw gunvessel launched in 1860. She was wrecked in 1864 near Yantai in China .
- HMS Racehorse (1900) was a Greyhound -class destroyer launched in 1900. She was sold in 1920, resold, and broken up in 1921.
- HMS Racehorse (H11) was an R-class destroyer launched in 1942. She was sold in 1949.
Citations
- ↑ "No. 12169" . The London Gazette . 10 March 1781. p. 2.
- ↑ Demerliac (1996), p.71, #446.
- ↑ "No. 12169" . The London Gazette . 10 March 1781. p. 2.
- ↑ Hepper (1994), p.60.
References
- Colledge, J. J. ; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8 .
- Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792 . (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859 . Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3 .
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