HMS Pickle

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pickle:

• The first
  Trafalgar Way in 2005. She was wrecked in 1808 off Cádiz
  .
• The second Pickle was the 12-gun schooner Eclair, originally French, that Garland, a tender to Daphne, captured in 1801. Eclair was renamed Pickle in 1809 and sold in 1818.
• The third Pickle was a schooner of 5 guns, launched in 1827. She was involved in the suppression of the slave trade, and achieved fame for capturing the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba on 5 June 1829. She was broken up in 1847.
• The fourth Pickle was originally the slave-trading brig Eolo, captured in 1852 by HMS Orestes.
• The fifth Pickle was a mortar vessel launched in 1855 and broken up in 1865.
• The sixth Pickle was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1864.
• The seventh Pickle was an Ant-class iron screw gunboat launched in 1872.
• The eighth
  Ceylon
  in 1959 and renamed Parakarama.

References

• ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8
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• Peter Goodwin, The Ships of Trafalgar (Naval Institute Press, 2005), p. 154.
• W.E. Ward, The Royal Navy and the Slavers (Pantheon, 1969), p. 135.

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