HMS Nimble explained

Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nimble.

• was a 12-gun cutter that was wrecked in 1781 with the loss of 28 men.
• was a purchased 12-gun cutter that ran aground in 1808 in Stangate Creek in the Medway and was then sold.
• was a Nimble-class 10-gun cutter commissioned wrecked during a violent storm in the Kattegat on 6 October 1812.
• was a new cutter that the Royal Navy purchased in 1813. The Navy sold her in 1816.
• HMS Nimble whose crew dislodged the Logan Rock whilst stationed off Land's End in April 1824.
• was a 5-gun schooner employed off Cuba in the suppression of the slave trade until she was wrecked on 4 November 1834.
• was a gunvessel of 5 guns that had a relatively uneventful career before she became a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve in 1890 and was disposed of in 1906.
• was a rescue tug launched in 1942 and sold in 1968.^[1]

Related vessels

There was a revenue cutter Nimble, of Deal, that the French captured and that became the French privateer Dunqerquois. The hired armed cutter destroyed her on 5 March 1808.

References

• • Book: William Patrick . Gosset . 1986 . The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900 . Mansell . 0-7201-1816-6 .
• Book: Hepper . David J. . 1994 . British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859 . Jean Boudriot . Rotherfield . 0-948864-30-3.
• Book: Rif . Winfield . British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . Seaforth Publishing. 2008 . 978-1-86176-246-7.

Notes and References

1. http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/7363.html Uboat.net