''Spider'' has been the name of a number of vessels of the British

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; * , formerly the

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''Victoire'' built at

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earlier that year, that the Royal Navy captured in 1782, took into service, and sold at Malta in 1806. * , formerly ''Vigilante'', a Spanish brig-rigged sloop captured on 4 April 1806 by HMS ''Renommee'', and that served in the Royal Navy for the remainder of the

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. She was broken up in 1815 at Antigua. * , a six-gun

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built at Chatham in 1835 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings, which served in South America before becoming an engine fitters' vessel at

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in 1855. Dimensions: Length Overall: 80' 2" x Breadth: 23' 3" x Depth: 9' 10" * , a wooden

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built on the Tyne by T W Smith in 1856, which later served in South America and South Africa. Dimensions: Length Overall: 106' x Breadth: 22' x Depth: 8' * , a steel, twin-screw torpedo gunboat built at Devonport in 1887. Of 525 tons displacement, she was armed with one 4" gun and six 3-pounder Quick-firing guns. She had two fixed torpedo tubes and two launching cradles. * HMS ''Spider'', a coastal destroyer renamed in 1906. * ''Spider'', a stern-wheeled gunboat launched by Thornycroft in 1909 that in 1912 served the South Nigerian government. * ''Spider'', formerly the wooden fishing boat ''Francisco Antonio Quarto'', purchased at

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in 1941 and used as a

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vessel.

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* Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Spider, Hms Royal Navy ship names

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