HMS Gaspee

Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Gaspee:

Gaspee (1763) was a revenue schooner famously destroyed in the 1772 Gaspee Affair in Narragansett Bay.^[1]
Gaspee (1773) was a brig that saw service in North America during the American Revolutionary War.

References

↑ See: A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay, on 10 June 1772. John Russell Bartlett (1861) http://books.google.com/books?id=Xr80AQAAMAAJ

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