Six ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racer:
HMS Racer (1857) aground on
Ryde Sands on 11 September 1871
HMS Racer (1810) was a 12-gun
Decoy-classcutter launched in April 1810. She stranded on the French coast in October, which enabled the French to capture her.
HMS Racer (1812) was a 12-gun
schooner, formerly the American Independence.
Medusa captured her in 1812. Racer was wrecked in the Florida Straits in 1814.
HMS Racer (1818) was a 6-gun cutter launched in 1818, and ordered to be sold in 1830.
HMS Racer (1884) was a
Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel launched in 1884. She was re-classified as a
sloop in 1884, used as a salvage vessel from 1917 and was sold in 1928.
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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Six ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racer:
HMS Racer (1857) aground on
Ryde Sands on 11 September 1871
HMS Racer (1810) was a 12-gun
Decoy-classcutter launched in April 1810. She stranded on the French coast in October, which enabled the French to capture her.
HMS Racer (1812) was a 12-gun
schooner, formerly the American Independence.
Medusa captured her in 1812. Racer was wrecked in the Florida Straits in 1814.
HMS Racer (1818) was a 6-gun cutter launched in 1818, and ordered to be sold in 1830.
HMS Racer (1884) was a
Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel launched in 1884. She was re-classified as a
sloop in 1884, used as a salvage vessel from 1917 and was sold in 1928.
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.