Seven ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Niger'' after the
Niger River
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, whilst another was planned.
* was a 33-gun
fifth rate launched in 1759, reduced to
sixth rate, converted to a
prison ship
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in 1810, and renamed ''Negro'' in 1813. She was sold in 1814.
* was a 38-gun fifth rate, launched in 1813 and broken up in 1820.
* was a wood
screw sloop launched in 1846 and sold in 1869.
* was a composite paddle vessel launched in 1880, renamed ''Cockatrice'' in 1881, ''Moorhen'' in 1896, and sold in 1899.
* was a
torpedo gunboat
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launched in 1892, converted to a
minesweeper in 1909, and sunk in 1914 by the German submarine near
Deal
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.
* was a launched in 1936 and sunk by a
mine
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...
near
Iceland
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in 1942.
* HMS ''Niger'' was to have been an . She was laid down in 1944, but was cancelled two months later.
* was an ''Algerine''-class minesweeper, launched in 1945, and scrapped in 1966.
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Royal Navy ship names