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Armed cutter, etching in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Royal Navy made use of a considerable number of hired armed vessels . These were generally smaller vessels, often cutters and luggers , that the Navy used for duties ranging from carrying despatches and passengers to convoy escort ...
HMS Cockatrice was the fourth of the Alert-class British Royal Navy cutters. She was launched in 1781 and had an uneventful career until the Navy sold her in 1802. Private interests purchased her, lengthened her, and changed her rig to that of a brig. They hired her out to the Navy and she was in service as a hired armed brig from 1806 to 1808 ...
Pages in category "Cutters of the Royal Navy" ... Hired armed cutter Sandwich; HMS Sherborne (1763) HDMS Søormen (1789) HMS Sparrow (1796) HMS Speedwell (1780)
She first appears in 1793 in readily accessible records as the privateer cutter Rattler. The British Admiralty hired her and employed her as HM Hired armed cutter Rattler. During this time she was present at the largest naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars. The Navy purchased her in 1796 for the Royal Navy and renamed her HMS Sparrow.
His Majesty's hired armed cutter Telemachus served the Royal Navy from 17 June 1795 until 15 January 1801. She was of 128 5 ⁄ 95 tons (bm) , and carried fourteen 4-pounder guns. [ 1 ] During her five and a half years of service to the Royal Navy, she captured eight French privateers as well as many merchant vessels.
HMS Greyhound was a cutter that the British Admiralty purchased in 1780 and renamed Viper in 1781. Viper captured several French privateers in the waters around Great Britain, and took part in a notable engagement.
Further adding to the difficulty in tracking her through the records, is that although she was originally a cutter, later the Navy converted her to a brig. Her contract ran from 16 October 1794 to 2 November 1801. As a cutter she had a burthen of 202 68 ⁄ 94 tons , and carried twelve 4-pounder guns. [1]
This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notable boats or dugout canoes or the like.