HMS ''Sheldrake'' may refer to one of several
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
ships named after the
Sheldrake duck:
* was a launched in 1806 and sold in 1817.
* was a launched in 1825 that became a
Post Office Packet Service
The Post Office Packet Service dates to Tudor times and ran until 1823, when the Admiralty assumed control of the service. Originally, the Post Office used packet ships to carry mail packets to and from British embassies, colonies and outposts. Th ...
packet
Packet may refer to:
* A small container or pouch
** Packet (container), a small single use container
** Cigarette packet
** Sugar packet
* Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
* Packet radio, a form ...
, sailing out of
Falmouth, Cornwall
Falmouth ( ; kw, Aberfala) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,797 (2011 census).
Etymology
The name Falmouth is of English or ...
. She was sold in 1855.
* was a gunboat of the Albacore class built by W & H Pitcher in Northfleet and launched in 1855 and sold in 1865 in Montevideo. In 1861 she was deployed in the South Atlantic during the Christie crisis with Brazil.
* was a launched in 1875. Renamed HMS ''Drake'' in 1888 and ''WV 29'' in 1893, the vessel reverted to HMS ''Drake'' in 1906 before being sold later that year.
* was a launched in 1889 and sold for breaking in 1907.
* was an launched in 1911 and sold for breaking up in 1921.
* was a
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 1937 and sold in 1946.
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Royal Navy ship names