HMS Ardent
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Numerous ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ardent, three of which were sunk in action:
- Ardent, launched on 13 August 1764 at Hull, England was a third rate 64-gun ship. She was captured by the French Navy in 1779 but recaptured by the Royal Navy in 1782 and renamed Tiger. She was sold in 1784.
- Ardent, launched on 21 December 1782, was another third-rate 64-gun ship. She caught fire and exploded near Corsica in April 1794.
- Ardent, launched on 9 April 1796, was another third-rate 64-gun vessel. She was broken up in Bermuda in March 1824.
- Ardent, launched on 12 February 1841 at Chatham, was a wooden paddle sloop. She was scrapped in 1864.
- Ardent was to have been the name of Rattler, a wooden screw sloop, but she was renamed before she was launched in 1843.
- Ardent, launched in 1894, was the lead ship of her class of torpedo boat destroyers. She was broken up in 1911.
- Ardent, launched in 1913, was an Acasta-class destroyer. She was sunk at the battle of Jutland on 1 June 1916.
- Ardent, launched in 1929, was an A-class destroyer sunk in 1940 in the Norwegian Campaign of World War II.
- Ardent (P437) was to have been an Amphion-class submarine but she was cancelled in 1945.
- Ardent, launched in 1975, was a Type 21 frigate, sunk on 21 May 1982 in the Falklands War.
The Royal Australian Navy also had patrol boat, HMAS Ardent, which has been preserved as a museum ship.
[edit] External links
- "Glarac Association website remembering those lost with HMS Ardent" - with complete CWGC casualty list.
J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
