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 HMS 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.

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.