Nine ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Racehorse'':
* was an 18-gun
privateer captured from the
French
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in 1757. She was on
Arctic discovery in 1773. She was renamed ''Thunder'' (and re-classed as a bomb vessel) on 24 October 1775. The French captured ''Thunder'' off
Sandy Hook on 14 August 1778.
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HMS ''Race Horse'' was the mercantile ''Hercules'' that the Royal Navy purchased at Jamaica in 1776, and that the American ''Andrea Doria'' captured on 24 December 1776. ''Surprise''s crew destroyed her in 1777 at
Delaware Bay to prevent the Royal Navy from recapturing her.
* was a 16-gun
sloop
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purchased in 1777 and shortly thereafter renamed ''Senegal''. The French 74-gun captured her on 14 August 1778. The French renamed her ''Sénégal''. recaptured her on 2 November 1780 after an engagement that lasted five hours and in which the French lost 12 killed and 28 wounded, while the British lost two killed and four wounded. The Royal Navy took her back into service as HMS ''Senegal''. ''Senegal'' was at
Gorée being repaired when she caught fire and exploded on 22 November, with the loss of captain and 22 men.
[Hepper (1994), p.60.]
* was a 10-gun
schooner
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purchased in 1778. She was wrecked in 1779 at
Beachy Head.
* was a 16-gun
sloop
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launched in 1781. She was broken up in 1799.
* was an 18-gun launched in February 1806. She was wrecked in 1822 off the
Isle of Man.
* was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1830. She became a coal hulk in 1860 and was sold in 1901.
* was a wood screw gunvessel launched in 1860. She was wrecked in 1864 near
Yantai in
China
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.
* was a launched in 1900. She was sold in 1920, resold, and broken up in 1921.
* was an
R-class destroyer launched in 1942. She was sold in 1949.
Citations
References
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*Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
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