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HMS Beaver

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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beaver, after the animal, the beaver:

Battle honours

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See also

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  • HMS Beaver's Prize (or Beaver Prize), was the 24-gun Pennsylvania State privateer Oliver Cromwell, which Beaver captured 12 June 1777. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy shortly thereafter. She was wrecked in 1780, with the loss of many of her crew, in the harbour at St Lucia in a storm.
  • Other ships named Beaver

Citations

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  1. ^ HMS Beaver,[1] - accessed 8 May 2014.

References

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  • 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.