Seven ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Venturer'', with an eighth announced:
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HMS ''Venturer'' was a 14-gun
cutter purchased in 1787 and named . She was captured by the French in 1794, recaptured in 1797, then briefly retaken but finally recaptured. She was recommissioned as HMS ''Venturer'' and was sold in 1803.
* was a 10-gun
schooner
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, previously the French
privateer
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''Nouvelle Enterprise''. captured her in 1807. She was renamed HMS ''Theodocia'' in 1808 and sold in 1814. She then became the mercantile ''Theodosia''. She traded with Rid de Janeiro and was last listed in 1822.
* was a
V-class submarine
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launched in 1943 and sold to the
Norwegian Navy
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in 1946. She was renamed HNoMS ''Utstein'' and was scrapped in 1964.
* HMS ''Venturer'' has been a name allocated to three tenders of , the Bristol
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
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Division:
** Motor minesweeper ''261'' was HMS ''Venturer'' between 1948 and 1956
** was HMS ''Venturer'' in 1962
** was HMS ''Venturer'' between 1961 and 1975
* was a converted
minesweeper
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History
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launched in 1972 as the
commercial trawler
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''Suffolk Harvester''. She was converted and commissioned into the Severn
RNR
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in 1978 and was returned to her original owner in 1983. She was converted into an oil rig safety/standby vessel.
* will be a
Type 31 frigate
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.
See also
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References
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Royal Navy ship names