Eleven ships and a
shore establishment
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of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Cormorant'', after the
seabird
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, the
cormorant
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:
* was a 16-gun
fireship
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, previously the French ''Marchault''. She was captured in 1757 and sold in 1762.
* was a 14-gun
sloop
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launched in 1776. She may have been at the
Siege of Pondicherry (1778)
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. The French captured her in 1781 off
Charleston, South Carolina
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and took her into service as ''Cormoran''. She apparently accompanied Admiral
de Grasse's fleet to the Chesapeake, however, her subsequent fate is unknown.
* was a 12-gun
brig-sloop
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, previously the American ''Rattlesnake''. She was captured in 1781, renamed HMS ''Rattlesnake'' in 1783, and sold in 1786.
* was an 18-gun
ship-sloop
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launched in 1794 and destroyed by an accidental explosion in 1796.
*
HMS ''Cormorant'' was a 20-gun
sixth rate
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, launched in 1795, previously the name ship for the of French corvettes. She was captured in 1796 and wrecked in 1800.
* was a 16-gun sloop, formerly the civilian ''Blenheim''. She was purchased in 1804, converted to a storeship in 1808 and sold in 1817. She then returned to mercantile service as a
West Indiaman
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under the name ''Blenheim''.
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(1818), Supple. pages Seq. №B10.
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. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1985 and was sold in 1991.
Shore establishment
* was the Royal Naval Air Station
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at Gibraltar
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between 1943 and 1944.
Other ships
*''Cormorant'' built 1865 was an Iron Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel with three or more mast (sailing), masts having the fore- and mainmasts Square rig, rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) Fore-and-aft rig, rigged fore and aft. Som ...
1073 gross tons. Builder T. Vernon and Sons. Liverpool. Owners W. J. Myers, Sons and Co. Reg. Liverpool. Sold c.1890 to Norwegian owners without change of name. Converted to a 3 mast barque, 1091 gross tons.
*''Cormorant'' 1883 an iron single screw Schooner. Construction: 1853, E. Pike in Cork. Owners: City of Cork Steam Packet Co. Ltd.
*''Cormorant II'' was a trawler hired between 1915 and 1919.
*''Cormorant III'' was a drifter
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Drifter(s) or The Drifter(s) may also refer to:
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hired between 1915 and 1919.
*''Cormorant IV'' was a trawler hired between 1916 and 1919.
* Q.G.S. Cormorant 1900–1955, a Queensland, Australia, Pilot boat, based in Brisbane.
* P677 ''Cormoran'' 1995 - a ''Flamant'' class patrol vessel of the French Navy
Citations
References
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*Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
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