HMS Pegasus

HMS Pegasus is a Royal Navy Reserve unit that supports the Fleet Air Arm in times of stretch, crisis, tension and war. It is administered from RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron), there is also a satellite office at RNAS Culdrose (HMS Seahawk).^[1] Previously the name has been given to nine ships in the British Royal Navy including:

• HMS Pegasus (1776), a ship sloop, was launched in 1776 but foundered a year later.
• HMS Pegasus (1779), a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1779 and sold in 1816. At one stage her captain was Prince William Henry, later William IV of the United Kingdom.
• HMS Pegase (1782), a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, captured from the French in 1782.
• HMS Pegasus was a Cormorant-class wooden-hulled screw gun vessel ordered in 1861 but cancelled in 1863.
• HMS Pegasus (1878), a 1,140-ton Doterel-class sloop launched in 1878.
• HMS Pegasus (1897), a 2,135-ton Pelorus-class cruiser launched in 1897.
• HMS Pegasus (1917), a 3,300-ton seaplane tender, launched on 9 June 1917.
• HMS Pegasus (1934), the world's first purpose-built seaplane carrier, commissioned as HMS Ark Royal, but renamed Pegasus in 1934.

See also

• USS Pegasus, name of two ships of the United States Navy
• Pegasus (disambiguation)

Citations

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 11 August 2023, at 06:11