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 ''Grappler'':
* was a 12-gun launched in 1797 and wrecked and burnt in 1803.
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* was an iron paddle vessel launched in 1845 and sold in 1850.
* was a
mortar vessel launched in 1855, renamed ''MV18'' later that year, and hulked in 1866. She was sold in 1896.
* was an launched in 1856 and sold into mercantile service in 1868.
* was a Banterer-class composite screw gunboat launched in 1880. She became a
boom defence vessel
A net laying ship, also known as a net layer, net tender, gate ship or boom defence vessel was a type of naval auxiliary ship.
A net layer's primary function was to lay and maintain steel anti-torpedo or anti-submarine nets. Nets could be laid ...
in 1904 and was sold in 1907.
See also
- a 14-gun brig belonging to the Bombay Marine of the British
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
, launched in 1804, captured in 1806, recaptured in 1809, and that then disappears from the records.
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References
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Royal Navy ship names