HMS Eclipse
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Eight ships of Britain's Royal Navy have been named HMS Eclipse:
- Eclipse, a 12 gun, 169 ton gunboat launched at Blackwall on 29 March 1797 and sold in October 1802.
- Eclipse, a 12 gun French brig originally called Venteux captured by the Royal Navy 1803. Renamed Eagle soon after capture, her name was changed on 26 August 1803 to Eclipse. Sold on 7 April 1807
- Eclipse, an 18 gun Cruizer-class brig sloop launched at Dover on 4 August 1807 and sold on 31 August 1817.
- Eclipse, a 10 gun Cherokee-class brig sloop sold in 10 November 1863.
- Eclipse, a 700 ton wooden screw sloop launched at Millwall on 18 September 1860 and broken up in July 1867.
- Eclipse, a 1,267 ton wood screw sloop originally named Sappho but renamed before her launch at Sheerness on 14 November 1867 and lent to the War Department for use as a storage hulk between 1888 and 1892. Sold in 1921.
- Eclipse, the lead ship of her class of cruisers. Launched at Portsmouth on 19 July 1894 and sold in August 1921.
- Eclipse, an E and F class destroyer launched at Denny on 12 April 1934 and sunk by a mine in the Aegean Sea on 24 October 1943.
[edit] References
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
