Fifteen ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Chatham'' after the port of
Chatham, Kent
Chatham ( ) is a town located within the Medway unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Gillingham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham.
The town developed around Chatham ...
, home of the
Chatham Dockyard.
* was a
galliot captured in 1666 during the
Second Anglo-Dutch War and given away in 1667.
* was a 4-gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
launched in 1673 and wrecked in 1677.
* was a
fourth rate launched in 1691 and sunk as a
breakwater at
Sheerness
Sheerness () is a town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 11,938, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town ...
in 1749. She was raised and broken up in 1762.
* was a 4-gun
yacht launched in 1716 and sold in 1742.
* was a 6-gun yacht launched in 1741. She was rebuilt in 1793 and 1842, and broken up by 1867.
* was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1758. She was used for harbour service from 1793 and was a powder hulk from 1805. She was renamed HMS ''Tilbury'' in 1810 and was broken up in 1814.
* was a 4-gun survey
brig
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the ...
, launched in 1788. She was part of
George Vancouver
Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what a ...
's expedition of the Pacific Northwest coast and circumnavigated the globe. She was sold in 1830.
* was a 4-gun
schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
purchased in 1790 and sold in 1794.
* was a hired sloop in service in 1793.
* was a transport launched in 1811 and sunk as a breakwater in 1825.
* was a 74-gun
third rate, originally the French ''Royal Hollandais''. She was captured on the stocks in 1809 at
Flushing, launched in 1812, and sold in 1817.
* was a
sheer hulk launched in 1813 and broken up in 1876.
* was an iron
paddlewheel gunboat launched in 1835. She was subsequently exported to the
United States and became a
blockade runner
A blockade runner is a merchant vessel used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait. It is usually light and fast, using stealth and speed rather than confronting the blockaders in order to break the blockade. Blockade runners usuall ...
for the
Confederate Navy during the
American Civil War. She was captured by in 1863 and became . She served with the US Navy until 1865.
* was a
light cruiser launched in 1911. She was lent to the
Royal New Zealand Navy in 1920 and was scrapped in 1926.
* was a
Type 22 frigate. She was launched in 1988 and decommissioned in February 2011.
See also
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References
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