HMS Mercury

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18 gun ordnance store ship Mercury, Lieut. Heighington R.N. breaking the blockade of Gibraltar in 1782

Eighteen Royal Navy ships and two schools have borne the name HMS Mercury, or HMS Mercure, after the God Mercury, of Roman mythology

Ships

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  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a ship launched in 1620. Her fate is unknown.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a ship purchased in 1622. Her fate is unknown.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 6-gun advice boat launched in 1694 and captured by a French privateer in 1697.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1739 and foundered in 1744.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 16-gun brigantine launched in 1744 and captured in 1745.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1745 and broken up in 1753.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1756 and wrecked in 1777.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was an unrated schooner in service 1760–65.[1]
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1779 and broken up in 1814.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was an 18-gun sloop. She was formerly a French privateer that Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". captured in 1798. She was renamed HMS Trompeuse in 1799 and foundered in 1800.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a tender launched in 1807 and broken up in 1835.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1826, used as a coal hulk from 1861 and sold in 1906.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a cutter tender launched in 1837, renamed YC6 in 1866, HMS Plymouth in 1876, and sold in 1904.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and despatch vessel launched in 1878, converted to a depot ship in 1906, and sold in 1919. She was to have been named HMS Columbine in 1912, but this did not happen.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was an auxiliary minesweeper sunk during World War I.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a paddle steamer requisition during World War II for use as an auxiliary minesweeper which struck a mine and sank in 1940.

School

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See also

  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., a 14-gun brig launched at Bombay Dockyard in 1806 for the naval arm of the British East India Company and lost at sea in 1833.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". or Mercury Packet, launched at Calcutta in 1806 and sold at Java in 1822.
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., a naval training establishment until 1968 at Hamble in Hampshire, founded as a ship in 1885.

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