HMS Spider
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Spider has been the name of a number of vessels of the British Royal Navy;
- Spider (1782), formerly La Victoire, a cutter captured on 18 June 1782 by HMS Stag, which served in the Napoleonic Wars, capturing a number of French privateers around the British coast. [1]
- Spider (1803), a 10-gun cutter hired between August 1803 and December 1804.[2]
- Spider, formerly Vigilante, a brig-rigged sloop captured on 4 April 1806 by HMS Renomee and which served in the Royal Navy for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars.[3]
- Spider, a six-gun schooner built at Chatham in 1835 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings, which served in South America before becoming an engine fitters' vessel at Plymouth in 1855. Dimensions: Length Overall: 80' 2" x Breadth: 23' 3" x Depth: 9' 10"[4]
- Spider, a wooden gunboat built on the Tyne by T W Smith in 1856, which later served in South America and South Africa. Dimensions: Length Overall: 106' x Breadth: 22' x Depth: 8' [5]
- Spider, a torpedo gunboat built at Devonport in 1887.[6]
- HMS Spider, a coastal destroyer renamed "TB 5" in 1906.[7]
- Spider, formerly Francisco Antonio Quarto, purchased at Gibraltar in 1941 and used as a degaussing vessel.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376182". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376178". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376183". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376185". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376186". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376187". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376179". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376181". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_x.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
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