HMS Scourge

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Scourge :

• HMS Scourge was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1779. In 1793 she captured Sans Cullote and she foundered in 1795.
• HMS Scourge was an 8-gun galley purchased in 1779 and listed until 1784.
• HMS Scourge was a 4-gun gunvessel, formerly a Dutch hoy. The Admiralty purchased her in 1794 and renamed her HMS Crash in 1803; she was broken up that same year.
• HMS Scourge was a 22-gun sloop, formerly the French corvette Robuste. The Royal Navy captured her in 1796 and sold her in 1802.
• HMS Scourge was a 16-gun sloop that the Admiralty purchased in 1803 and sold in 1816.
• HMS Scourge was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1844 and broken up in 1865.
• HMS Scourge was an Ant-class gunboat launched in 1871, renamed C79 as a dockyard craft in 1904, and was listed until 1930.
• HMS Scourge was a Beagle-class destroyer launched in 1910 and sold in 1921.
• HMS Scourge was an S-class destroyer launched in 1942. She was sold to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1946, renamed HNLMS Evertsen, and was broken up in 1963.

Also

• Scourge was a gunboat that the garrison at Gibraltar launched in June 1782 during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. She was one of 12. Each was armed with an 18-pounder gun, and received a crew of 21 men drawn from Royal Navy vessels stationed at Gibraltar. Porcupine provided Scourge's crew.^[1]

Citations and references

Citations

1. Drinkwater (1905), p.246.

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. OCLC 67375475.
• Drinkwater, John (1905) A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783: With a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Times. (J. Murray).