HMS Chub explained

Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Chub, or alternatively HMS Chubb, a name given to several types of fish, many in the family Cyprinidae:

• was a 4-gun launched in 1807. She capsized in 1812.
• HMS Chubb was a schooner on the Great Lakes, the American, which the British captured in 1813. The Americans recaptured her at the Battle of Lake Champlain and sold her in 1815.^[1]
• was a wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and broken up by 1869.

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• • Book: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793 - 1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. 2008. 978-1-86176-246-7.

Notes and References

1. Web site: NMM, vessel ID 382365. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041628/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_v.pdf. dead. 2 August 2011. Warship Histories, vol. v. National Maritime Museum. 30 July 2011.