HMS Dart

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dart, after the River Dart in Devon:

• HMS Dart (1796) was a 28-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1796 and broken up in 1809.
• HMS Dart (1803) was an 8-gun lugger, previously the British privateer Dart, built in 1796, captured by the French in 1798, recaptured from the French by HMS Apollo in 1803, and sold in 1808.
• HMS Dart (1810) was a 10-gun cutter, the mercantile Belerina or Ballerina, which had been building at Mevagissey in 1809; the Royal Navy purchased her in 1810 and she was lost at sea in between October and December 1813.
• HMS <i>Dart</i> (1847) was a 3-gun <i>Pandora</i>-class brig launched in 1847, converted to a coastguard vessel and renamed WV.26 in 1863 and broken up in 1875.
• HMS <i>Dart</i> (1860) was a wooden Philomel-class gunvessel launched in 1860. She was renamed HMS Kangaroo in 1882 and broken up in 1884.
• HMS Dart (1882) was the ex-colonial yacht Cruiser, transferred in 1882, lent to the New South Wales government in 1904 and sold in 1912.
• HMS <i>PC.73</i> (1918), a PC-class sloop launched in 1918, was renamed HMS Dart in 1925. She was sold for breaking in 1938.
• HMS <i>Dart</i> (minesweeper), an auxiliary minesweeper that struck a mine and sankin the Suez Canal on 8 March 1941
• HMS Dart was the original name of the Flower-class corvette HMS Godetia, launched in 1941, transferred to the Belgian forces in exile in 1942 and scrapped in 1947.
• HMS Dart (K21) was a River-class frigate launched in 1942 and sold for breaking in 1956.

Also

• HM hired armed cutter Dart (1803–1805)

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 Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

List of ships with the same or similar names

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This page was last edited on 25 July 2023, at 07:59