Several vessels of the

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have been named HMS ''Nimble''. * was a 12-gun cutter that was wrecked in 1781 with the loss of 28 men. * was a purchased 12-gun cutter that ran aground in 1808 in Stangate Creek in the Medway and was then sold. * was a ''Nimble''-class 10-gun cutter commissioned wrecked during a violent storm in the Kattegat on 6 October 1812. * was a new cutter that the

purchased in 1813. The Navy sold her in 1816. * HMS ''Nimble'' whose crew dislodged the Logan Rock whilst stationed off Land's End in April 1824. * was a 5-gun schooner employed off Cuba in the suppression of the slave trade until she was wrecked on 4 November 1834. * was a gunvessel of 5 guns that had a relatively uneventful career before she became a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve in 1890 and was disposed of in 1906. * was a rescue tug launched in 1942 and sold in 1968.Uboat.net
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There was a revenue cutter ''Nimble'', of Deal, that the French captured and that became the French privateer ''Dunqerquois''. The hired armed cutter destroyed her on 5 March 1808.

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