HMS Beaver

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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beaver:

• Beaver, a ketch in the Royalist navy, captured by Parliamentary forces in 1656 and broken up two years later
• Beaver, 18, a sloop originally called Trudaine and operating as a French privateer, but captured in 1757 and renamed before being sold in 1761
• Beaver 14, a sloop launched in 1761 and sold in 1783
• Beaver, 14, a sloop launched in 1795 and sold in 1808
• Beaver, 10, a Cherokee class sloop launched in 1809 and sold in 1829
• Beaver, a wooden paddle packet originally operating as a Post Office vessel but transferred to the Royal Navy in 1837. It became a dockyard lighter in 1845.
• Beaver, an Albacore class gunboat launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864.
• Beaver, a 125 ton tender transferred from the War Department to the Royal Navy in 1905 and sold in 1911.
• Beaver, an Acheron class destroyer launched in 1911 and sold in 1921.
• Beaver (F93), a Type 22, or Broadsword class frigate launched in 1982 and scrapped in 2001.

[edit] See also

• HMS Beaver Prize, an American privateer captured by HMS Beaver in 1778 and commissioned into the Royal Navy. Wrecked in 1780.
• HMCS Beaver

[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.