Two ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Driver:
HMS Driver (1797) was an 18-gun
sloop launched in 1797, one of three ordered from builders in
Bermuda (the others being
HMS Dasher and
Hunter. Between 1822 and 1825 Driver served in the
West Africa Squadron and succeeded in capturing a Spanish slave ship. Beginning in 1825 she was used as a
convict ship, and was broken up in 1834.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
Two ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Driver:
HMS Driver (1797) was an 18-gun
sloop launched in 1797, one of three ordered from builders in
Bermuda (the others being
HMS Dasher and
Hunter. Between 1822 and 1825 Driver served in the
West Africa Squadron and succeeded in capturing a Spanish slave ship. Beginning in 1825 she was used as a
convict ship, and was broken up in 1834.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.