HMS Jaseur explained

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Jaseur, the name coming from the French for the waxwing.

• was a 12-gun brig-sloop that captured off the Andaman Islands in 1807. She foundered, with the loss of her whole crew, in 1808.^[1]
• was a brig-sloop launched in 1813 and sold in 1847.
• was a wood screw gunboat launched in 1857 and wrecked in 1859.
• was a wood screw gunvessel launched in 1862 and sold in 1874 to the Commissioners of Irish Lights. Whether they renamed her and how long they kept her is unclear.
• was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892 and sold in 1905.
• was an launched in 1944 and sold for breaking up in 1956.

References

• • Book: Hepper, David J.. 1994. British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Jean Boudriot. Rotherfield. 0-948864-30-3.

Notes and References

1. Hepper (1994), p.125.