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HMS Hotspur

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Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Hotspur after the nickname of Sir Henry Percy:

  • HMS Hotspur (1810), a 36-gun fifth-rate in service from 1810 to 1821
  • HMS Hotspur (1828), a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, a chapel hulk after 1859, renamed Monmouth in 1868, and sold in 1902
  • HMS Hotspur (1870), an armoured ram launched in 1870 and sold in 1904
  • HMS Hotspur (H01), an H-class destroyer launched in 1936 and transferred to the Dominican Republic in 1948

    • Fictional ships

  • A sloop called Hotspur appears in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur, third in the series, armed with eighteen 9-pounder cannon and four carronades
  • A Hotspur appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Adventure of the Gloria Scott
  • A schooner called Hotspur appears in the Richard Bolitho novel A Band of Brothers, written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).

    • References

    HMS Hotspur Wikipedia
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