Several ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Nautilus'', after the
Greek
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word for a
sailor
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, including:
* was a 16-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 1762 and put up for sale in 1780
* was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1784 and wrecked in 1799. All 125 men of her crew were saved.
* was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1807.
* was an 18-gun launched in 1807 and broken up in 1823
* was a 10-gun launched in 1830. She became a
training ship
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in 1852, was
hulked in 1872 and broken up in 1878
* was an 8-gun training
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 1879 and sold in 1905
* was a launched in 1910. She was renamed HMS ''Grampus'' in 1913 and was sold in 1920
* was a
submarine
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launched in 1914. She was renamed HMS ''N1'' in 1918 and was sold in 1922
See also
*
Ships named ''Nautilus''
* was launched in 1806 by the
Bombay Dockyard
Bombay Dockyard, also known as Naval Dockyard, is an Indian shipbuilding yard at Mumbai. The superintendent of the dockyard is a Naval Officer of the rank Rear Admiral, known as the Admiral Superintendent.
Background
Shipbuilding was an establ ...
for the naval arm 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 ...
. ''Nautilus'' was wrecked in 1834 on the Malabar Coast.
Citations and references
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Royal Navy ship names