HMS Lurcher

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lurcher

• HMS Lurcher was a 6-gun cutter, previously the French Comtesse d'Ayen. She was captured in 1761 and sold in 1763.
• HMS Lurcher was a 6-gun cutter launched in 1763 and sold in 1771.
• HMS Lurcher was an 8-gun cutter launched in 1774 and sold in 1778.
• HMS Lurcher was a 12-gun cutter, originally launched in 1781 as HMS Pigmy. The French captured her in 1781 but the British recaptured her the next year and renamed HMS Lurcher in 1783. She reverted to HMS Pigmy later that year, and was wrecked in 1793. She was wrecked during the night in Bigbury Bay, Devon. When she started to break up Captain A. Pullibank permitted the crew to go ashore via a hawser. Ten of her crew of 60 were lost. The subsequent court martial acquitted her officers and crew of the loss.^[1]
• HMS Lurcher was an Acheron class destroyer launched in 1912 and sold in 1922.

In addition to these vessels, His Majesty's 12-gun hired armed cutter Lurcher served the Royal Navy from 1795 until a French privateer captured her in 1801.

References

Citations

1. Gossett (1986), p.1.

Bibliography

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
• Gossett, William Patrick (1986) The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. (London: Mansell). ISBN 0-7201-1816-6