HMS Grenada
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Grenada (or Granada), after the island of Grenada:
- HMS Grenada (or Granada) was a 12-gun bomb vessel of 279 tons (bm) launched at Rotherhithe on 26 June 1693. She was under the command of Captain Thomas Willshaw and participating in a bombardment of Le Havre on 16 July 1694 when a shell fired from the town exploded on her, "blowing her to pieces".[1]
- HMS Grenada was a 4-gun bomb vessel launched at Deptford in 1695, and broken up in May 1718.
- HMS Grenada was the French privateer schooner Harmonie, launched in 1800 and captured in 1803 that the inhabitants of Grenada donated to the Royal Navy in 1804; at the end of 1810 she was sold for breaking up.
- HMS Grenada was the French 16-gun privateer Iéna, which HMS Cruizer captured in the North Sea in 1807.[2] The Royal Navy took her into service but it is not clear that she was ever commissioned; she was last listed in 1814.
See also
Citations and references
- Citations
- ^ Hepper (1994), p17.
- ^ "No. 15990". The London Gazette. 10 January 1807.
- References
- 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.
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
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