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Ships bearing the name HMS ''Salamander'' include: :''This list may be incomplete.'' * was a
bomb ship A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannons ( long guns or carronades) – although bomb vessels carried a few cannons for self-defence – but mortars moun ...
built in 1687 at the
Chatham Dockyard Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham, Kent, Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham; at its most extens ...
. Sold in 1713. *, renamed from ''Basilisk'' while on the stocks, was a bomb ketch of 265 tons ( bm) launched on 4 September 1730 at the
Woolwich Dockyard Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English Royal Navy Dockyard, naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich - originally in north-west Kent, now in southeast London - whe ...
. Sold in 1744 to the British
East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...
. * was a
fire ship A fire ship or fireship is a large wooden vessel set on fire to be used against enemy ships during a ramming attack or similar maneuver. Fireships were used to great effect against wooden ships throughout naval military history up until the ad ...
purchased in 1745. Sold in 1748. * was a fire ship purchased in 1757. Sold in 1761. * was HMS ''Shark'', converted to a fireship and renamed in 1778. The Navy sold her in 1783. She then became a Greenland whaler, merchantman, convict transport to Australia, South Seas whaler, merchantman again, and slave ship. She was last listed in 1811, but did not appear in newspapers after 1804. * was the mercantile ''Busy'', launched at Yarmouth in 1777 that the Navy purchased in 1804 for use as a fireship but sold in 1807. * was an 818-ton, 4-gun paddle sloop launched in 1832 and broken up in 1883. * was a built in 1889 at the Chatham Dockyard. Sold for breaking in 1906. * was a launched in 1936. She participated in the Second World War. She was scrapped in 1947.


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