Four ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pandour, after the Pandurs, an 18th-century force of Croatian soldiers (e.g.
Trenck's Pandurs), who served the
Habsburg monarchy as skirmishers and who had a reputation for brutality:
HMS Pandour (1795) was the French 14-gun
brigPandour, launched in 1780, that the British captured in 1795 and renamed HMS Pandour or Pandora; she foundered in the North Sea in 1797.
HMS Pandour, was the French 16-gun privateer ship-sloop
Eugénie, which
Magnanime captured in March 1798.The Royal Navy renamed her HMS Pandour, but never commissioned her. In 1800 she was renamed HMS Wolf and was broken up in 1802.
HMS Pandour was the Dutch 44-gun frigate
Hector, launched in 1784, that the British captured in 1799, fitted out and transferred to the
Transport Board in 1800, commissioned in 1803, converted to a floating battery in 1804, and transferred to Customs as a store hulk in 1805. The Admiralty offered her for sale at Portsmouth in May 1814.
HMS Pandour was a 22-gun
Banterer-classpost ship, begun under the name Pandour in 1805, but renamed
HMS Cossack before being launched in 1806; she was broken up in 1816.
Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.
ISBN978-1861762467.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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.
Four ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pandour, after the Pandurs, an 18th-century force of Croatian soldiers (e.g.
Trenck's Pandurs), who served the
Habsburg monarchy as skirmishers and who had a reputation for brutality:
HMS Pandour (1795) was the French 14-gun
brigPandour, launched in 1780, that the British captured in 1795 and renamed HMS Pandour or Pandora; she foundered in the North Sea in 1797.
HMS Pandour, was the French 16-gun privateer ship-sloop
Eugénie, which
Magnanime captured in March 1798.The Royal Navy renamed her HMS Pandour, but never commissioned her. In 1800 she was renamed HMS Wolf and was broken up in 1802.
HMS Pandour was the Dutch 44-gun frigate
Hector, launched in 1784, that the British captured in 1799, fitted out and transferred to the
Transport Board in 1800, commissioned in 1803, converted to a floating battery in 1804, and transferred to Customs as a store hulk in 1805. The Admiralty offered her for sale at Portsmouth in May 1814.
HMS Pandour was a 22-gun
Banterer-classpost ship, begun under the name Pandour in 1805, but renamed
HMS Cossack before being launched in 1806; she was broken up in 1816.
Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.
ISBN978-1861762467.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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.