HMS Sphinx
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Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English Six ships (and one shore establishment) of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sphinx or HMS Sphynx, after the mythical creature, the Sphinx:
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1748 and sold in 1770.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1775. The French captured her in September 1779,[1] but Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". recaptured her on 29 November 1779.[2] She was broken up in 1811.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a 10-gun Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". launched in 1815 that became a Post Office Packet Service packet, sailing out of Falmouth, Cornwall. She was sold in 1835.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1846 and broken up in 1881.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was a composite paddle vessel launched in 1882 and sold in 1919.
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". launched in 1939 that foundered in 1940 after an air attack.
- HMS Sphinx was the name given to a naval accommodation camp in Alexandria, Egypt, from April 1941.[3]
Citations
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References
- Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). Template:ISBN
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