HMS Racehorse

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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racehorse:

• HMS Racehorse was an 8-gun privateer captured from the French in 1757. She was on Arctic discovery in 1773. Captured by the American Andrea Doria in 1776 and destroyed by the Royal Navy in 1777 at Delaware Bay.
• HMS Racehorse was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1777. She was captured by the French in 1778. In 1780 she was recaptured from the French, renamed HMS Senegal, and then blew up in the same year.
• HMS Racehorse was a 10-gun schooner purchased in 1778. She was wrecked in 1779 at Beachy Head.
• HMS Racehorse was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1781. She was broken up in 1799.
• HMS Racehorse was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop launched in 1810. She was wrecked in 1822 at the Isle of Man.
• HMS Racehorse was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1810. She was broken up in 1817.
• HMS Racehorse was a 20-gun sixth-rate launched in 1830. She became a coal hulk in 1860 and was sold in 1901.
• HMS Racehorse was a wood screw gunvessel launched in 1860. She was wrecked in 1864 near Yantai in China.
• HMS Racehorse was a Greyhound class destroyer launched in 1900. She was sold in 1920.
• HMS Racehorse was an R class destroyer launched in 1942. She was sold in 1949.

[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.