Ten ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
have been named HMS ''Rattlesnake'', including:
* , a 14-gun cutter launched 1777, later re-classified as a sloop, and lost in 1781.
*
HMS ''Rattlesnake'' (1783), ex-''Rattlesnake'' U.S. privateer, ex-''Cormorant'' of 1781. A 12-gun brig. The Algerine Navy and the Dey of Algiers detained her for five days in November 1784. Sold 1786.
* , a 16-gun sloop in service from 1791 until sold in 1814.
*
HMS ''Rattlesnake'' (1814), was a brig of 14 guns that the United States Navy purchased in 1813. The Royal Navy captured her in 1814 and the last extant records report that the Navy had purchased her. Her subsequent fate is currently unknown.
* , a 28-gun frigate launched in 1822.
* , a 21-gun launched in 1861 and broken up in 1882.
* , a
torpedo gunboat
In the late 19th century, torpedo gunboats were a form of gunboat armed with torpedoes and designed for hunting and destroying smaller torpedo boats. By the end of the 1890s torpedo gunboats were superseded by their more successful contemporaries, ...
in service from 1886 to 1910.
* , a launched in 1910 and sold in 1921.
* , an . Pennant J.297, M.297. Launched 23/2/1943. Scrapped at Brunton, Grangemouth, October 1959.
References
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Royal Navy ship names