HMS Shark

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Numerous vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Shark after the fish:

• Shark, a 201 ton (builder's measure) 14 gun sloop launched at Portsmouth on 7 September 1732, and sold on 2 December 1755.
• Shark, a 313 ton (builder's measure) 16 gun sloop purchased whilst under construction at Rotherhithe and launched on 9 March 1776. Converted to a fireship and renamed HMS Salamander on 23 July 1778, and sold on 14 August 1783.
• Shark, a 304 ton (builder's measure) 16 gun sloop launched at Hull on 25 November 1779. Recorded in 1805 as a receiving ship at Jamaica. Foundered on 13 January 1818.
• Shark, a 28 gun, sixth rate bought in 1780 and sunk during a storm off North America on 30 November 1780.
• Shark, a 63 ton (builder's measure] 4 gun Dutch hoy purchased in April 1794 and handed over to French forces on 11 December 1795 at La Hogue by her crew during a mutiny.
• Shark, launched in 1894, was a Rocket-class destroyer. She was broken up in 1911.
• Shark, launched in 1912, was an Acasta-class destroyer. She served in World War I and was sunk at the battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916.
• Shark, launched in 1916, was an S-class destroyer. She served in World War I and was scrapped in 1931.
• Shark (54S), launched in 1934, was an S-class submarine. She served in World War II and was disabled by air attack during the Allied campaign in Norway on 5 July 1940 and sank the next day.
• Shark (G03), launched in 1943, was an S-class destroyer but transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy on completion in 1944 and renamed Svenner. She was sunk by German torpedo boats off Normandy on 6 June 1944.

See also: HMS Sharke

[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.