HMS Harrier
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Harrier:
- HMS Harrier (1804), an 18-gun Template:Sclass- launched in 1804 and lost around March 1809, presumed foundered off the Île de France.[1]
- HMS Harrier (1813), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813, sold in 1829
- HMS Harrier (1831), an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1831, broken up in 1840
- HMS Harrier (1854), a 17-gun wood screw sloop-of-war launched in 1854, broken up in 1866
- HMS Harrier (1881), a two-gun schooner launched in 1881, sold in 1888
- HMS Harrier (1894), a Template:Sclass- launched in 1894, sold in 1920
- HMS Harrier (J71), a Template:Sclass- launched in 1934, sold in 1950
- HMS Harrier was also a Royal Naval shore establishment for radar research and training, near Dale, Pembrokeshire. It was commissioned in 1948 and closed in 1961.[2]
References
- ^ Grocott (1997), p.277,
- ^ "HMS Harrier". Coastlands Local History Group. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- 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.
- Grocott, Terence (1997), Shipwrecks of the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, Chatham, ISBN 1-86176-030-2
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