HMS Goree explained

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Goree, after the island of Gorée, and its capture by the British in 1758:

• HMS Goree was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1729 as the storeship hoy . She was converted and renamed HMS Goree in 1759 and was broken up in 1763.
• was a sloop captured from the French in 1759 and paid off in 1763.
• was a 16-gun sloop captured from the French in 1800 and sold in 1806.
• HMS Goree was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794 as . She was captured by the French in 1806, recaptured in 1807 and taken into the navy as HMS Goree. She became a prison hulk in 1814 and was broken up in 1817.

See also

• , a frigate in service from 1943 to 1946