HMS Terrible
Eight
vessels of the British Royal Navy
have been named HMS Terrible:
- sixth ratecaptured by the Spanish near Cape Saint Vincent
- HMS Terrible (1730), 14-gun bomb vessel
- third ratecaptured from the French
- HMS Terrible (1762), 74-gun third rate
- HMS Terrible (1785), 74-gun third rate
- paddle frigate
- HMS Terrible (1895), a Powerful-class protected cruiser
- HMS Terrible (R93), aircraft carrier launched in 1944 and sold to Australia in 1947, where it was renamed HMAS Sydney
Also
- Terrible 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 Revenge's crew.[1]
Citations
- ^ Drinkwater (1905), p.246.
References
- 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).
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