HMS Saltash

Template:Use dmy dates Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named Saltash:

• , a 14-gun sloop launched at Plymouth in 1732 and sold out of service in 1741.
• , a 14-gun sloop built at Rotherhithe in 1741 but wrecked off Portugal a year later.
• , a 14-gun sloop, built at Rotherhithe in 1742 and sunk off Beachy Head in 1746.
• , a 14-gun sloop built at Rotherhithe in 1746 and sold at the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763.
• , a storeship built in 1748 and wrecked in 1752.
• , a lighter built in 1809 and sold in 1831.
• , a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Aberdare sub-class built for the Royal Navy during World War I and sold for scrap in 1947.

Fiction

• HMS Saltash, a in the 1951 novel The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.

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