Several vessels of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS Vulture, including:
*, a Royalist ketch captured by the Parliamentary forces in 1648.
*, a Dunkirk privateer captured in 1656, and sold in 1663.
*, a
sloop of 1673, sold 1686.
*, a
fireship
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of 1690, lost to the French in 1708.
*, a 10/14-gun
sloop of 1744, sold in 1761.
*, a 14-gun ship-
sloop of 1763, taken to pieces in 1771.
*, a 14/16-gun ship-
sloop of the ''Swan'' class that served in the
American Revolution
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; transported
Benedict Arnold
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as he escaped following the failed attempt to surrender
West Point
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to British forces; sold in 1802.
* was launched as ''Warrior'' in 1801 by
Simon Temple, South Shields. The Admiralty purchased her in 1803 and converted her to a 16-gun sloop that it disposed of in 1814. She returned to mercantile service as ''Warrior'' and made one voyage east of the Cape of Good Hope. She was last listed in 1820.
* , a steam paddle frigate launched in 1843 that served in the
Crimean War
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and was sold in 1866.
* , a screw gunboat launched in 1869, disposed of 1885.
* , a
torpedo boat destroyer
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larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats. They were conceived in ...
launched in 1898, broken up in 1919.
*HMS ''Vulture'' was also the official designation for
RNAS St Merryn
Royal Naval Air Station St Merryn, commonly referred to as RNAS St Merryn, (HMS ''Vulture'', later HMS ''Curlew'') is a former military airbase of the Royal Navy located northeast of Newquay, Cornwall and northwest of Bodmin, Cornwall, Englan ...
, a
Naval Air Station
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in
Cornwall
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,
England
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, from 1940 until 1953, with the associated bombing and gunnery range being .
See also
* , ("Vautour" being French for vulture), an 18-gun
brig-sloop
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, captured in the
Netherlands
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in 1809, commissioned in 1810, and foundered 1813; sometimes called ''Vulture'', despite the ship above being active.
References
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Royal Navy ship names