HMS Spider
HMS Spider (1887), an early model of torpedo gunboat.
Spider has been the name of a number of vessels of the British Royal Navy;
- Spider (1782), formerly the privateer Victoire built at Dunkirk earlier that year, a schooner that Stag captured off the Irish coast on 18 June 1782 after a chase of 11 hours. At the time, she was armed with two 8-pounder and fourteen 6-pounder guns (six of which she threw over-board during the chase), and had a crew of 91 men.[1] In Royal Navy service she captured a number of French privateers around the British coast.[2] In British service she was armed with twelve 4-pounder guns. Because Spider served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.[3] She was sold at Malta in 1806.[4]
- Spider, formerly Vigilante, a brig-rigged sloop captured on 4 April 1806 by HMS Renomee and which served in the Royal Navy for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars.[5]
- Spider, a six-gun schooner built at Chatham in 1835 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings, which served in South America before becoming an engine fitters' vessel at Plymouth in 1855. Dimensions: Length Overall: 80' 2" x Breadth: 23' 3" x Depth: 9' 10"[6]
- Spider, a wooden gunboat built on the Tyne by T W Smith in 1856, which later served in South America and South Africa. Dimensions: Length Overall: 106' x Breadth: 22' x Depth: 8' [7]
- Spider, a torpedo gunboat built at Devonport in 1887.[8]
- HMS Spider, a coastal destroyer renamed "TB 5" in 1906.[9]
- Spider, formerly Francisco Antonio Quarto, purchased at Gibraltar in 1941 and used as a degaussing vessel.[10]
See also
At least two hired armed vessels also bore the name Spider:
- Lugger Spider. 1796.[11]
- Cutter Spider served on contract between 9 July 1803 and 8 December 1804. She had a burthen of 1141⁄94 tons (bm) and was armed with ten 12-pounder carronades.[12] She may have been the brig Spider, of 113 tons (bm) and fourteen 12 and 2-pounder guns, which received a letter of marque on 29 January 1801 under captain John Friend.[13]
Citations
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 12308. pp. 3–4. 25 June 1782.
- ↑ "NMM, vessel ID 376182". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 21077. pp. 791–792. 15 March 1850.
- ↑ Demerliac (1996), p.198, #1989.
- ↑ "NMM, vessel ID 376183". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ↑ "NMM, vessel ID 376185". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ↑ "NMM, vessel ID 376186". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ↑ "NMM, vessel ID 376187". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ↑ "NMM, vessel ID 376179". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ↑ "NMM, vessel ID 376181". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ↑ "NMM, vessel ID 376189". Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ↑ Winfield (2008), p.391.
- ↑ Letters of Marque
References
- Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
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