HMS Spider

HMS Spider (1887), an early model of torpedo gunboat.

Spider has been the name of a number of vessels of the British Royal Navy;

• Spider (1782), formerly the privateer Victoire built at Dunkirk earlier that year, that the Royal Navy captured in 1782, took into service, and sold at Malta in 1806.
• Spider, formerly Vigilante, a brig-rigged sloop captured on 4 April 1806 by HMS Renomee, and that served in the Royal Navy for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars.^[1]
• Spider, a six-gun schooner built at Chatham in 1835 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings, which served in South America before becoming an engine fitters' vessel at Plymouth in 1855. Dimensions: Length Overall: 80' 2" x Breadth: 23' 3" x Depth: 9' 10"^[2]
• Spider, a wooden gunboat built on the Tyne by T W Smith in 1856, which later served in South America and South Africa. Dimensions: Length Overall: 106' x Breadth: 22' x Depth: 8' ^[3]
• Spider, a torpedo gunboat built at Devonport in 1887.^[4]
• HMS Spider, a coastal destroyer renamed "TB 5" in 1906.^[5]
• Spider, formerly Francisco Antonio Quarto, purchased at Gibraltar in 1941 and used as a degaussing vessel.^[6]

See also

At least two hired armed vessels also bore the name Spider:

• hired armed lugger Spider
• Hired armed cutter Spider

Citations

1. "NMM, vessel ID 376183" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
2. "NMM, vessel ID 376185" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
3. "NMM, vessel ID 376186" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
4. "NMM, vessel ID 376187" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
5. "NMM, vessel ID 376179" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
6. "NMM, vessel ID 376181" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011.

References

• Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.

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