HMS Medina
Several ships and shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Medina, after the River Medina on the Isle of Wight:
- HMS Medina (1772) was a yacht that served the Governor of the Isle of Wight; she was broken up at Portsmouth in 1832.[1]
- HMS Medina (1813) was a Cyrus-class post ship; she was sold in 1832.[2]
- HMS Medina (1840) was a 2-gun Merlin-class paddle packet boat completed in 1840. She was converted into a survey ship in 1856 and broken up in March 1864.
- HMS Medina (1876) was a Medina-class gunboat launched 1876, sold in 1904.
- HMS Medina (1916), an Admiralty M-class destroyer that served during the First World War. The ship was originally named Redmill but renamed before being launched in 1916 and was sold for breaking up in 1921.[3]
- HMS Medina (shore establishment), landing craft and Fleet Air Arm shore establishment, Puckpool, Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Citations
[edit]- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 400.
- ^ Winfield (2008), p. 268.
- ^ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 253.
References
[edit]- 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.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
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