HMS Vernon

Two ships and a training establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vernon, possibly after Admiral Edward Vernon:

• HMS Vernon (1781) was a 14-gun armed ship listed between 1781 and 1782.
• school ship
  in 1876. She was renamed HMS Actaeon in 1886 and sold in 1923.
• HMS Vernon (shore establishment) was the torpedo school established in 1876. She remained in commission until 1996, using a number of different hulked ships as her home until she moved ashore in 1923. Ships that have been named Vernon whilst part of the school include:
  • HMS Ariadne (1859) was jointly commissioned as Vernon with the original Vernon in 1876 and was used until 1886.
  • HMS Donegal (1858) was Vernon from 1886.
  • HMS Marlborough (1855) was Vernon II from 1895.
  • HMS Warrior (1860) was Vernon III from 1904.
  • HMS Actaeon (the original HMS Vernon (1832)) was renamed Vernon IV in 1904.
  • HMS Skylark (1932) a minelaying tender, was renamed Vernon in 1938.

References

• ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8
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