HMS Indefatigable
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Indefatigable:
- HMS Indefatigable (1784) was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1784, razeed to a 38-gun frigate in 1795 and broken up in 1816. This was the ship popularised by C. S. Forester in the early volumes of his Hornblower series of novels.
- HMS Indefatigable was to have been a 50-gun fourth rate. She was ordered in 1832 but cancelled in 1834.
- HMS Indefatigable (1848) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1848, loaned as a training ship after 1865, and sold in 1914.
- HMS Indefatigable (1891) was an Apollo-class second class cruiser launched in 1891, renamed HMS Melpomene in 1910, and sold in 1913.
- HMS Indefatigable (1909) was an Indefatigable-class battlecruiser, launched in 1909 and sunk at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
- HMS Indefatiguable (1883) was a despatch vessel launched in 1883 as HMS Phaeton. She was sold as a training ship named Indefatigable in 1913, was repurchased in 1941 and renamed HMS Carrick II before being scrapped in 1947.
- HMS Indefatigable (R10) was an Implacable-class aircraft carrier, launched in 1942 and scrapped in 1956.
Other vessels
- Indefatigable-class battlecruiser
- TS Indefatigable, British training ship for prospective Royal Navy seamen
- "His Majesty's armed defence ship Indefatigable", under the command of George Andrews, recaptured the Melcombe on 21 June 1804.[1] This Indefatigable appears to have been an hired armed ship that served between 1804 and 1805, though one source has her having been purchased in 1804 and sold in 1805.[2] A later source does not list her at all, neither as a purchase nor as a hired vessel.[3]
See also
The dictionary definition of indefatigable at Wiktionary- Indefatigable
The dictionary definition of References
- ^ The London Gazette: no. 15935. p. 861. 8 July 1806. Retrieved 25 Nov 2010.
- ^ Lyon (1993), p.187.
- ^ Winfield (2008).
- Lyon, David (1993) Sailing Navy List: all the ships of the Royal Navy, built, purchased and captured, 1688-1860. (Conway Maritime Press). ISBN 978-0-85177-617-0
- 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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