Ships bearing the name HMS ''Salamander'' include: :''This list may be incomplete.'' * was a

bomb ship A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannons ( long guns or carronades) – although bomb vessels carried a few cannons for self-defence – but mortars mounted ...

built in 1687 at the Chatham Dockyard. Sold in 1713. *, renamed from ''Basilisk'' while on the stocks, was a bomb ketch of 265 tons ( bm) launched on 4 September 1730 at the Woolwich Dockyard. Sold in 1744 to the British East India Company. * was a fire ship purchased in 1745. Sold in 1748. * was a fire ship purchased in 1757. Sold in 1761. *HMS ''Salamander'' (1778) was , converted to a fireship and renamed in 1778. The Navy sold her in 1783. She then became a Greenland whaler, merchantman, convict transport to Australia, South Seas whaler, merchantman again, and slave ship. She was last listed in 1811, but did not appear in newspapers after 1804. * was the mercantile ''Busy'', launched at Yarmouth in 1777 that the Navy purchased in 1804 for use as a fireship but sold in 1807. * was an 818-ton, 4-gun paddle sloop launched in 1832 and broken up in 1883. * was a built in 1889 at the Chatham Dockyard. Sold for breaking in 1906. * was a launched in 1936. She participated in the Second World War. She was scrapped in 1947.

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