HMS Adventure

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named Adventure. A thirteenth was planned but never completed:

• was a 26-gun galley launched in 1594 and broken up 1645.
• was a 32-gun ship launched in 1646, rebuilt in 1691 and captured by the French in 1709.
• Template:HMS was a 40-gun fifth rate launched in 1709 and broken up in 1741.
• Template:HMS was a fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1741, rebuilt as a 32-gun fifth rate in 1758, and sold in 1770.
• Template:HMS was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1768.
• Template:HMS was a survey ship, originally a collier named Marquis of Rockingham. She was purchased in 1771 and renamed Rayleigh, then renamed Adventure later that year. She accompanied Template:HMS on James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific (1772–1775). She returned to mercantile service after Cook's expedition; she was sunk in the Saint Lawrence River in 1811.
• Template:HMS was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1784 and broken up in 1816.
• HMS Adventure was a 10-gun transport launched in 1809 as Template:HMS. She was converted to a survey ship in 1817 and renamed HMS Adventure in 1821. She was sold in 1853.
• HMS Adventure was an iron screw storeship, launched in 1855 as Template:HMS. She was renamed HMS Adventure in 1857 and was broken up in 1877.
• HMS Adventure was to have been a torpedo ram. She was ordered in 1885 but was cancelled before her launch.
• Template:HMS was a river gunboat launched in 1891, transferred to British Central Africa in 1896 and sold in 1921.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass scout cruiser launched in 1904 and sold in 1920.
• Template:HMS was a minelayer launched in 1924. She was used as a repair ship from 1944 and was sold in 1947.

See also

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