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HMS Dromedary

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Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dromedary, after the dromedary:

  • HMS Dromedary was a 30-gun storeship, formerly the merchant Duke of Cumberland. She was purchased in 1777, and was registered as a fifth rate from 1779. She was broken up in 1783.
  • HMS Dromedary was a 24-gun storeship, originally launched in 1782 as the 44-gun fifth rate HMS Janus. She was converted to a storeship and renamed Dromedary in 1788, and was wrecked in 1800.
  • HMS Dromedary was a 24-gun storeship, formerly the merchant Kaikusroo. She was purchased in 1805 as a 40-gun and named HMS Howe, and then HMS Dromedary in 1806. She was later a convict ship and a prison hulk, and was broken up in 1864.
  • HMS Dromedary was an iron screw troopship launched in 1862 sold in 1869.
  • HMS Dromedary was an iron screw troopship, formerly the merchant Briton. She was purchased in 1873, and was sold in 1885.
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