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HMS ''Paramour'' was a 6-gun
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, briefly commanded by the
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Edmond Halley Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (; – ) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena in 1676–77, Hal ...
, initially as a civilian and later as a "temporary captain". ''Paramour'' was built by Fisher Harding of
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and launched in April 1694. She was rigged as a three-masted ship and was the first vessel built specifically as a research vessel for the Royal Navy. On one occasion during her sea-trials the visiting Tsar
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took her helm. After three voyages under Halley's captaincy she was refitted in 1702 as a bomb ketch (equipped with a large calibre mortar) in which capacity she remained in the Royal Navy until 22 August 1706 when she was sold to Captain John Constable for (probably) mercantile service. Her subsequent fate is unknown.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paramour Ships of the Royal Navy 1690s ships Ships built in Deptford