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Eight ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Badger, after the Eurasian badger:

Ships

Shore establishment

Hired armed vessels

  • His Majesty's hired armed cutter Badger shared in the prize money for Dutch vessels captured at the Vlieter Incident on 30 August 1799.[1]
  • His Majesty's hired armed cutter Badger served the Royal Navy under contract between 16 November 1811 and 13 May 1814.

Excise cutter

HMRC Badger (cutter, 1794) 10 guns, drawing published in 1796
  • His Majesty's Excise Cutter Badger was recorded as capturing the French privateer lugger Calaifen between Folkstone and Dungeness on 5 December 1798.[2]
  • His Majesty's Excise Cutter Badger brought into Yarmouth on about 16 December 1803 a French privateer armed with one swivel gun and having a crew of 35 men.[3]
  • His Majesty's Revenue cutter Badger captured the smuggling lugger Iris on 12 November 1819 for which her commander and crew received substantial prize money.[4]
  • His Majesty's Revenue cutter Badger captured the smuggler Vree Gebroeders a yawl-rigged cutter on 13 January 1823.[5]

Subterranean vessel

  • During the summer of 2012, the inflatable "HMS Badger 1" was utilised by a group of British cavers to cross various flooded stretches of caves on the Vercors Plateau of France. The vessel appears to have been retired from cave exploration, however its operators have yet to comment on whether a "HMS Badger 2" could be launched on the Vercors or in a similar environment in the future.[citation needed]

Replica

  • HMS Badger is a 35 ft replica gunboat, converted from a Great Lakes lifeboat and launched in 2001. She operates from Penetanguishene on the Canadian side of Lake Huron.

Notes

  1. ^ "No. 15533". The London Gazette. 16 November 1802. p. 1213.
  2. ^ "No. 15088". The London Gazette. 11 December 1798. p. 1193.
  3. ^ Lloyd's List, no. 4931.
  4. ^ "No. 17697". The London Gazette. 14 April 1821. p. 847.
  5. ^ Chatterton, E. Keble (1912). "XVIII". King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855. Retrieved 18 October 2020 – via Project Gutenberg.

References