HMS Antelope

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Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antelope:

• HMS Antelope, a galley launched in 1546, rebuilt twice and participated in the fight against the Spanish Armada (1588). She was burned by parliamentarian sailors at Hellevoetsluis in 1649 during the Second English Civil War.
• HMS Antelope, a 56-gun third rate great frigate, launched in 1651 and wrecked in 1652.
• HMS Antelope, a 40-gun fourth rate frigate, launched in 1653 as Preston and renamed in 1660. Sold in 1693.
• HMS Antelope, a 54-gun fourth rate ship of the line launched in 1703.
• HMS Antelope, rebuilt from the 1703 Antelope and launched in 1741. She served in the Seven Years' and American Revolutionary wars and was sold in 1783.
• HMS Antelope, a 204-ton West Indian packet ship of 6 guns. She was attacked and captured on October 10, 1782.
• HMS Antelope, a 14-gun ship purchased in 1783, and in 1785 was under the command of Captain S. J. Gambier.
• HMS Antelope, a 50-gun fourth rate, launched 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, 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.
• HMS Antelope, an Alarm-class torpedo gunboat launched c. 1892. She was no longer in service by 1906.
• HMS Antelope (H36), an A-class destroyer built by Hawthorn Leslie and launched on July 27, 1929.
• HMS Antelope (F170), a Type 21 frigate. She was bombed in the Falklands War on May 23 and sank on May 24, 1982.

A fictitious 18th century privateer named Antelope is the setting for Stan Rogers's song "Barrett's Privateers"

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.