Four 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 been named HMS ''Louisa'':
* was a 3-gun gunvessel, previously a
hoy
Hoy ( sco, Hoy; from Norse , meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland. A natural causeway, ''the Ayre'', links the island to the smaller South Walls; the two ...
, purchased in 1794 and sold in 1798.
*HMS ''Louisa'' was also a 3-gun vessel, separate from the above, purchased in 1798 and sold in 1799.
[Winfield (2008), p.326.]
* was a tender in service in 1814 and sold in 1816.
* was a
cutter purchased in 1834. She foundered in 1841.
* was an wooden screw
gunboat
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
History Pre-steam ...
launched in 1855 and sold in 1867.
See also
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Royal Navy ship names