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Nine ships and one shore establishment of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Wasp'', with one other government vessel using the name:
Ships
* HMS ''Wasp'' was an 8-gun
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 1749. She was sold in 1781. In 1782 she became the mercantile ''Polly'', and then in 1784 she became the
slave ship . The French captured ''Mentor'' circa 1795.
* was purchased on the stocks as a 14-gun sloop, converted to a
fireship in 1798, and expended in July 1800 in the operation to capture the .
* ''Wasp'' was a gunboat at the
Siege of Toulon (1793). She may have been a
tartane that the French Navy had acquired at Toulon earlier that year.
* was a 4-gun
gunvessel purchased in 1794 from the
Dutch. She was sold in 1802.
* was originally the French 14-gun sloop ''Guepe'', launched in 1798 and captured in 1800. The Navy sold her in 1811.
* was an 18-gun launched in 1812. She was broken up in 1847.
* was an wooden screw sloop launched in 1850. She was sold in 1869.
* was a composite screw
gunboat launched in 1880. She was wrecked in 1884 and finally sold in 1910.
* was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1886. She foundered 1887 after leaving
Singapore
Shore establishments
* was a
Coastal Forces shore establishment at
Dover
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during World War II
Other vessels
* ''Torpedo Boat No. 191'' was a second-class spar
torpedo boat launched in 1883 by Thornycroft for Tasmanian service, arriving in Hobart on SS ''Abington'' on 1 May 1884. Called ''Wasp'' by her builders, she was referred to only by the number TB 1 when in service. She was transferred to South Australia in 1905, being towed behind ''Protector'', and sold in 1917.
*''Wasp'' was one of two
schooner
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s built at Calcutta for the Bengal Government in 1799. She served for three years in the Red Sea before being turned over to the government in Bombay. The other may have been ''Fury''. They both supported
General Baird
General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet, of Newbyth, GCB (6 December 1757 – 18 August 1829) was a British Army officer.
Military career
He was born at Newbyth House in Haddingtonshire, Scotland, the son of an Edinburgh merchant family, and enter ...
's
expedition to Egypt
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to help General
Ralph Abercromby expel the
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
there.
[''Asiatic Annual Register...'' (1805) Vol, 7, pp.145-149.]
Citations and references
Citations
References
*''The Asiatic Annual Register, Or, a View of the History of Hindustan and of the Politics, Commerce and Literature of Asia'', vol. 7. (1805). (Debrett).
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