HMS Nautilus explained

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor, including:

• was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1762 and put up for sale in 1780
• was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1784 and wrecked in 1799. All 125 men of her crew were saved.
• was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1807.
• was an 18-gun launched in 1807 and broken up in 1823
• was a 10-gun launched in 1830. She became a training ship in 1852, was hulked in 1872 and broken up in 1878
• was an 8-gun training brig launched in 1879 and sold in 1905
• was a launched in 1910. She was renamed HMS Grampus in 1913 and was sold in 1920
• was a submarine launched in 1914. She was renamed HMS N1 in 1918 and was sold in 1922

See also

• Ships named Nautilus
• was launched in 1806 by the Bombay Dockyard for the naval arm of the British East India Company. Nautilus was wrecked in 1834 on the Malabar Coast.

References

• • Book: Grocott, Terence . Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras . Chatham . London . 1997 . 1861760302.