The most well-known took part in

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's expedition to Antarctica from 1839 to 1843, and John Franklin's lost expedition in 1845, both with her sister ship . She was originally a 10-gun bomb vessel launched in 1813 and converted to a discovery vessel in 1836. She was involved in the bombardment of

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in the

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. The two ships were converted to screw propulsion in 1844 in preparation for their second polar expedition, where they became trapped in ice near King William Island and were abandoned in 1848. Eight other ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Terror'': * was a 4-gun

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launched in 1696, and captured and burnt by the French in 1704. * was a 14-gun bomb vessel launched in 1741 and sold in 1754. * was an 8-gun bomb ketch launched in 1759 for the British

that it sold in 1774. New owners renamed her ''Union''. She made two voyages as a Greenland

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before becoming a London-based transport. She remained a transport until she was lost on 20 May 1782 off the Malabar coast of India. * was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1779 and sold in 1812. * was a 4-gun

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, formerly a Dutch hoy. She was purchased in 1794 and sold in 1804. * was a 16-gun iron screw floating battery launched in 1856. She became the base ship at

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in 1857 and was sold in 1902. * HMS ''Terror'' was previously the iron screw troopship . She was launched in 1866, became a base ship in 1897 and was renamed ''Terror'' in 1901. She was put up for sale in 1914 and was sold in 1918. * was an

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launched in 1916. She was sunk in an air attack in 1941. Shore establishment: * HMS ''Terror'' (from 1945 to 1971) was also the name of the Royal Navy

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next to Singapore Naval Base in

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Other British military vessels named ''Terror''

* ''Terror'' was a gunboat that the garrison at Gibraltar launched in June 1782 during the

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. She was one of 12. Each was armed with an 18-pounder gun, and received a crew of 21 men drawn from Royal Navy vessels stationed at Gibraltar. provided ''Terror''s crew.Drinkwater (1905), p. 246.

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* * Drinkwater, John (1905) ''A History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783: With a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Times''. (J. Murray). __NOTOC__ {{DEFAULTSORT:Terror Royal Navy ship names