Several ships of the
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 ...
have been named HMS ''Egmont'':
*, a 74-gun
third-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...
ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
launched in 1768, and broken up in 1799.
* was a
schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
of eight guns and 100 tons burthen, launched in 1768. The Royal Navy purchased her but she foundered on 12 July 1776 while attempting to enter
Trepassy, Newfoundland, while under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Christie.
* was a schooner of eight guns and 199 tons burthen, purchased in 1778. On 14 July 1779, ''Egmont'', under the command of Lieutenant John Gardiner, encountered the American privateer brig ''Wildcat''. ''Egmont'' attempted to escape but was forced to
strike
Strike may refer to:
People
* Strike (surname)
Physical confrontation or removal
*Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
*Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected ...
after having lost two men killed, one of them by the boarding party from ''Wildcat''. On 16 July, was able to capture ''Wildcat'', of 14 guns and 75 men, ten weeks off the stocks, and free Lieutenant Gardiner and 20 of his men who were aboard her, but ''Egmont'' herself had separated earlier.
The Royal Navy took ''Wildcat'' into service as .
*, another 74-gun third rate ship of the line, launched in 1810 and sold in 1875.
*HMS '' Egmont'', between 1904 and 1914, (
ironclad
An ironclad is a steam engine, steam-propelled warship protected by Wrought iron, iron or steel iron armor, armor plates, constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships ...
, formerly , renamed 1904)
*
Fort St Angelo
Fort St. Angelo ( mt, Forti Sant'Anġlu or ''Fortizza Sant'Anġlu'') is a bastioned fort in Birgu, Malta, located at the centre of the Grand Harbour. It was originally built in the medieval period as a castle called the ''Castrum Maris'' ( en, Ca ...
in Birgu, Malta (1912–1933). A
stone frigate
A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land.
"Stone frigate" is an informal term that has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a ' sloop of war' to harass the French in 1803–04 ...
, so named when the above-mentioned HMS ''Achilles'' was used as a depot ship.
Notes
References
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*Hepper, David J. (1994) ''British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859''. (Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot).
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Royal Navy ship names