HMS Antelope
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Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antelope. Little information about early Antelopes is available.
- The first Antelope was built in 1546, rebuilt two times and took part in the fight against the Spanish Armada (1588). She was burned by parliamentarian sailors at Hellevoetsluis in 1649 during the Second English Civil War.
- In 1681, James Story, Captain of Antelope conducted a census of the Avalon colony (now Ferryland, Newfoundland) and on September 1, 1681, wrote "An Account of what fishing Ships, Sack Ships, Planters and Boatkeepers from Trepassey to Bonavista..."
- Antelope, launched in 1703, was a fourth-rate ship of the line of 54 guns.
- Antelope, launched in 1741, was rebuilt from the 1703 Antelope. She served in the Seven Years' and American Revolutionary wars and was sold in 1783.
- Antelope was a 204-ton West Indian packet ship of 6 guns. She was attacked and captured on October 10, 1782.
- Antelope, of 14 guns, was purchased in 1783, and in 1785 was under the command of Captain S. J. Gambier.
- Antelope was a 50-gun fourth-rate, built in 1802 at Yarmouth Roads. It is very likely she is the same Antelope that was in commission at least from 1811 to 1840. She brought the first contingent of convicts to Bermuda in 1824 to work at the dockyard.
- Antelope was an iron paddle-wheel vessel of 1,020 tons and 650 horsepower (480 kW). She was part of the Mediterranean fleet, recommissioned at Malta on February 25, 1880, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Walter Haylton Joliffe, with a crew of about 80 including a corporal and seven privates of Marines.
- Antelope, launched c. 1892, was an Alarm-class torpedo gunboat. She was no longer in service by 1906.
- Antelope (H36) was an A-class destroyer built by Hawthorn Leslie. Her keel was laid down July 11, 1928. She was launched July 27, 1929, completed March 20, 1930
- Antelope (F170) was a Type 21 frigate. She was sunk in the Falklands War on May 24, 1982 by an Argentinian bomb.
A fictitious 18th century privateer named Antelope is the setting for Stan Rogers's song "Barrett's Privateers"
[edit] References
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
