HMS Chatham

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Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Chatham after the port of Chatham, Kent, home of the Chatham Dockyard

• The first Chatham was a galliot captured in 1666 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• The second Chatham was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and wrecked in 1677.
• The third Chatham was a fourth-rate launched in 1691 and sunk as a breakwater at Sheerness in 1749.
• The fourth Chatham was a 4-gun yacht launched in 1716 and sold in 1742.
• The fifth Chatham was a 6-gun yacht, launched in 1741 and broken up in 1767.
• The sixth Chatham was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1758 and broken up in 1814.
• The seventh Chatham was a 4-gun survey brig, launched in 1788 and sold in 1830. From 1791 to 1795, along with the better-known HMS Discovery and under the overall command of George Vancouver, this vessel sailed around the world, conducting a detailed survey of the Pacific Northwest coast. In 1792, Vancouver's lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) Peter Puget was made her acting Commander.
• The eighth Chatham was a 4-gun schooner launched in 1790 and sold in 1794.
• The ninth Chatham was a sloop hired in 1793.
• The tenth Chatham was transport launched in 1811 and sunk as a breakwater in 1825.
• The eleventh Chatham was a 74-gun third-rate, originally the French Royal Hollandais, captured on the stocks in 1809 at Flushing, launched in 1812, and sold in 1817.
• The twelfth Chatham was a sheer hulk launched in 1813 and broken up in 1876.
• The thirteenth Chatham was an iron paddlewheel gunboat launched in 1835.
• The fourteenth Chatham, launched in 1911, was a Chatham-class light cruiser scrapped in 1926.
• The fifteenth Chatham (F87), launched in 1988, is a Type 22 frigate.

[edit] See also

• HMS Chatham Double
• HMS Chatham Hulk
• HMS Chatham Prize

[edit] References

• J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.