HMS Nimble

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

• HMS Nimble (1778) was a 12-gun cutter that was wrecked in 1781 with the loss of 28 men.^[1]
• HMS Nimble (1781) was a purchased 12-gun cutter that ran aground in 1808 in Stangate Creek in the Medway and was then sold.^[2]
• HMS Nimble (1811) was a Nimble-class 10-gun cutter commissioned under Lieutenant John Reynolds in 1812 that was wrecked on a sunken rock a half-dozen miles from the Sälö Beacon, Sweden, during a violent storm in the Kattegat on 6 October 1812. Apparently, insufficient allowance had been made for the strong currents.^[3][4]
• HMS Nimble (1813) was a purchased 12-gun cutter that was sold in 1816.
• HMS Nimble whose crew dislodged the Logan Rock whilst stationed off Land's End in April 1824.
• HMS Nimble (1826) was a 5-gun schooner employed off Cuba in the suppression of the slave trade until she was wrecked on 4 November 1834.^[5]
• HMS Nimble (1860) 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.
• HMS Nimble (W 123) was a rescue tug launched in 1942 and sold in 1968.^[6]

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 Princess Augusta destroyed her on 5 March 1808.

Citations

1. Hepper (1794), p. 61.
2. Gossett (1986), p.69.
3. Gossett (1986), p.85.
4. Hepper (1994), p.142.
5. Gossett (1986), p.105.
6. Uboat.net

References

• 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. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
• Hepper, David J. (1994) British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. (Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot). ISBN 0-948864-30-3
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.