HMS Jaseur

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Jaseur, the name coming from the French for the Waxwing.

• Jaseur was a 12-gun brig-sloop that Bombay captured off the Andaman Islands in 1807.
• Jaseur was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and sold in 1847.
• Jaseur was a wood screw gunboat launched in 1857 and wrecked in 1859.
• Jaseur was a Philomel-class wood screw gunvessel launched in 1862 and sold in 1874 to the Commissioners of Irish Lights. Whether they renamed her and how long they kept her is unclear.
• Jaseur was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892 and sold in 1905.
• Jaseur was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1944 and sold for breaking up in 1956.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.