HMS Bramble

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bramble. An eighth was planned but never completed:

• fireship
  in 1665 and expended against the Dutch in 1667.
• HMS Bramble (1809) was a 10-gun schooner launched in Bermuda. She had a relatively brief and uneventful career before the Royal Navy sold her in December 1815. She became the mercantile Bramble (or Bamble), and was last listed in 1824.
• HMS Bramble (1822) was a 10-gun cutter launched in 1822. She was converted to a survey vessel in 1842, lent to the Colonial Department in 1853 as a diving-bell vessel, and sold in 1876.
• HMS Bramble was to have been a Britomart-class wooden screw gunboat laid down in 1861 and cancelled in 1863.
• Trindade and Martin Vaz
  in 1889. She was renamed HMS Cockatrice in 1896 and was sold in 1906.
• HMS Bramble (1898) was a later Bramble-class gunboat launched in 1898 and sold in 1920.
• HMS Bramble (J11) was an Halcyon-class minesweeper launched in 1938 and sunk by German ships in 1942 in the Battle of the Barents Sea.
• HMS Bramble (J273) was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1945 and scrapped in 1961.

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