HMS Grenada explained
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Grenada (or Granada), after the island of Grenada:
- (or Granada) was a 12-gun bomb vessel of 279 tons (bm) launched at Rotherhithe on 26 June 1693. She was under the command of Captain Thomas Willshaw and participating in a bombardment of Le Havre on 16 July 1694 when a shell fired from the town exploded on her, "blowing her to pieces".[1]
- was the French privateer schooner Harmonie, launched in 1800 and captured in 1803 that the inhabitants of Grenada donated to the Royal Navy in 1804; at the end of 1810 she was sold for breaking up.
- was the French 16-gun privateer Iéna, which captured in the North Sea in 1807. The Royal Navy took her into service but it is not clear that she was ever commissioned; she was last listed in 1814.
See also
- (or HMS Grenada) was a 4-gun bomb vessel launched at Deptford in 1695, and broken up in May 1718.
References
- Book: Hepper, David J.. 1994. British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Jean Boudriot. Rotherfield. 0-948864-30-3.
- 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
- Hepper (1994), p17.
