Eleven vessels of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Grampus'' after two members of the
dolphin family (
Delphinidae): ''Grampus griseus'', also known as
Risso's dolphin, and ''Orcinus orca'', also known as the
killer whale.
* was a 14-gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
launched in 1731. She foundered in the
English Channel in 1742.
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1743 and was captured by the French in 1744.
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1746. She was converted to a
fire ship and renamed ''Strombolo'' in 1775. She was hulked in 1780.
*
HMS ''Grampus'' was a 70-gun
third-rate ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
launched in 1751 as
HMS ''Buckingham''. She was renamed HMS ''Grampus'' in 1777 and used as a storeship.
* was a 50-gun
fourth rate launched in 1782 and broken up in 1794.
*HMS ''Grampus'' was a 54-gun fourth rate, originally the
East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vesse ...
, which the Admiralty purchased in 1795; she grounded and was abandoned in 1799.
* was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1802. She was used for harbour service from 1820, became the first of the
Seamen's Hospital Society's
hospital ships, and was sold in 1832.
* was a 50-gun fourth rate, originally launched in 1784 as the 74-gun
third-rate . She was reduced to 50 guns in 1845, and renamed HMS ''Grampus''. She served as powder hulk from 1856 and was sold in 1897.
* was a launched in 1910 as HMS ''Nautilus''. She was renamed HMS ''Grampus'' in 1913 and was sold in 1920.
* was a launched in 1936 and sunk by Italian torpedo boats in 1940.
* was a
''Porpoise''-class submarine launched in 1957. She was used as a
training ship from 1976 until 1979, and was sunk as a target in 1980.
See also
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References
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