Five ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
have borne the name HMS ''Enchantress'':
* was the mercantile ''Enchantress'' launched at Ringmore in 1802 that the Navy bought in 1804 as an armed ship of 4 or 14 guns, re-rated as a brig-sloop, and used for harbour service from 1813. The Navy transferred her to the Revenue Service in August 1818. She may have been in service until 1850.
* was a dispatch vessel launched in 1862, became the Admiralty yacht, sold for breaking up in 1889.
* was a dispatch vessel launched in 1865 as HMS ''Helicon'', renamed ''Enchantress'' in 1888, sold in 1905.
* was an Admiralty yacht launched in 1903, sold for breaking up in 1935.
* was a launched in 1934, sold in 1945 and renamed ''Lady Enchantress'', broken up in 1952.
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''Enchantress'' was the
slave ship
Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known as "Guineamen" because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast ...
''Manuela'' (or ''Emanuela'') that captured off the east coast of Africa on 10 August 1860, with 846 slaves aboard. The Royal Navy used her as a storeship and she wrecked on 20 February 1861 at
Mayotte
Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is loc ...
in the
Mozambique Channel
The Mozambique Channel (french: Canal du Mozambique, mg, Lakandranon'i Mozambika, pt, Canal de Moçambique) is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between the Southeast African countries of Madagascar and Mozambique. The channel is about long ...
without ever having been commissioned.
Citations and references
Citations
References
HMS Enchantress– britainsnavy.co.uk
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Royal Navy ship names