Six ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Amethyst'', whilst another was planned:
* was a 36-gun
fifth-rate frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat.
The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
, originally the French frigate ''Perle'', launched in 1790, captured in 1793, and wrecked off
Alderney
Alderney (; french: Aurigny ; Auregnais: ) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide.
The island's area is , making it the third-largest ...
in 1795.
* was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1799 and wrecked in 1811.
* was a 26-gun
sixth rate launched in 1844 and sold in 1869 for use as a cable vessel.
* was an screw
corvette
A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or " rated") warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the slo ...
launched in 1873 and sold in 1887.
* was a
cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several roles.
The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several hu ...
launched in 1903 and scrapped in 1920.
* was a
modified ''Black Swan''-class 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 1943. She was later designated as a
frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat.
The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
, was involved in the
Yangtze Incident
The ''Amethyst'' Incident, also known as the Yangtze Incident, was a historic event which involved the Royal Navy ships , , , and on the Yangtze River for three months during the Chinese Civil War in the summer of 1949.
Description
On ...
in 1949 and was broken up in 1957.
* HMS ''Amethyst'' was to have been a . She was renamed before being launched in 1983, and was sold to the
Bangladeshi Navy in 1994, being renamed ''Shapla''.
Battle honours
Ships named ''Amethyst'' have earned the following
battle honours
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In European military t ...
:
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''Cerbere'', 1800
*
''Thetis'', 1808
*
''Niemen'', 1809
*
China
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, 1856−60
*
Ashantee
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, 1873−74
*
Heligoland
Heligoland (; german: Helgoland, ; Heligolandic Frisian: , , Mooring Frisian: , da, Helgoland) is a small archipelago in the North Sea. A part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein since 1890, the islands were historically possessions ...
, 1914
*
Dardanelles, 1915
*
Atlantic
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, 1945
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Korea
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, 1951−52
See also
* was an
anti-submarine
An anti-submarine weapon (ASW) is any one of a number of devices that are intended to act against a submarine and its crew, to destroy (sink) the vessel or reduce its capability as a weapon of war. In its simplest sense, an anti-submarine weapo ...
trawler requisitioned in 1935 and sunk by a mine on 24 November 1940.
* ''Amethyst'' was the Royal Navy's bridge simulator in the 1990s at , named after the .
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