HMS Adder

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HMS Adder has been the name of a number of British Royal Navy ships, after the snake:

  • HMS Adder, an 8-gun galley purchased in 1782 and sold in 1787.
  • HMS Adder, a 12-gun gunboat launched at Deptford on 22 April 1797 and broken up in 1805.
  • HMS Adder, a 12-gun brig launched at Topsham on 9 November 1805 but captured by French forces the following year having run aground on the French coast.
  • HMS Adder, another 12-gun brig launched at Topsham on 28 June 1813 and transferred to coastguard service in January 1816. Wrecked near Newhaven in 1832.
  • HMS Adder, renamed from the cutter HMS Seagull in 1817.
  • HMS Adder, a wooden 240 ton paddle packet ship, transferred from the GPO in 1837. Sold in 1870.
  • HMS Adder, a tender transferred from the War Department in 1905. Renamed HMS Attentive in July 1919. Sold on 31 January 1923.

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