HMS Lily
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named Lily or HMS Lily:[Note 1]
- English ship Lily (1642), a 10-gun ship purchased in 1642 and wrecked in September 1653.
- English ship Lily (1657), a 6-gun ketch launched in 1657 and sold in 1667.
- English ship Lily (1672), a 6-gun sloop launched in 1672 and lost in 1673.
- HMS Lily, a 16-gun brig-sloop. She was formerly the brig Sir Charles Grey, purchased in 1795 and named HMS Spencer. She was renamed Lily in 1800, captured by the French privateer Dame Ambert in 1804, and renamed Général Ernouf. She was engaged in 1805 by HMS Renard and destroyed by an explosion.[1]
- HMS Lily (1804), a brig, the former Swallow, purchased in 1804 and sold in 1811.
- HMS Lily (1837), a 16-gun Racer-class brig launched in 1837, converted to coal hulk C29 in 1860, renamed C15 and sold in 1908.
- HMS Lily (1861), a 4-gun Cormorant-class gunvessel launched in 1861 and broken up in 1867.
- HMS Lily (1874), a 3-gun Arab-class gunvessel launched in 1874 and wrecked off Labrador in 1889.
- HMS Lily (1915), an Acacia-class sloop launched in 1915, converted to a depot ship in 1923, renamed Vulcan II. She was renamed Adamant II in 1930 and sold the same year.
Notes
- ↑ "Lilly" was used as a largely interchangeable spelling variant
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15817. p. 800. 18 June 1805.
- 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 Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.