Spider has been the name of a number of vessels of the British
Royal Navy;
HMS Spider (1782), formerly the
privateerVictoire built at
Dunkirk earlier that year, that the Royal Navy captured in 1782, took into service, and sold at Malta in 1806.
HMS Spider (1806), formerly Vigilante, a Spanish brig-rigged
sloop captured on 4 April 1806 by
HMS Renommee, and that served in the Royal Navy for the remainder of the
Napoleonic Wars.[1] She was broken up in 1815 at Antigua.
HMS Spider (1835), a six-gun
schooner built at
Chatham in 1835 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings, which served in South America before becoming an engine fitters' vessel at
Plymouth in 1855. Dimensions: Length Overall: 80' 2" x Breadth: 23' 3" x Depth: 9' 10"[2]
HMS Spider (1856), a wooden
gunboat built on the
Tyne by T W Smith in 1856, which later served in South America and South Africa. Dimensions: Length Overall: 106' x Breadth: 22' x Depth: 8' [3]
HMS Spider (1887), a steel, twin-screw
torpedo gunboat built at
Devonport in 1887.[4] Of 525 tons displacement, she was armed with one 4" gun and six 3-pounder Quick-firing guns. She had two fixed torpedo tubes and two launching cradles.
HMS Spider, a coastal destroyer renamed
TB 5 in 1906.[5]
Spider, a stern-wheeled gunboat launched by Thornycroft in 1909 that in 1912 served the South Nigerian government.
Spider, formerly the wooden fishing boat Francisco Antonio Quarto,[6] purchased at
Gibraltar in 1941 and used as a
degaussing vessel.[7]
Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
ISBN2-906381-23-3
Carlier, Libera Bruno (1965). Opération Flandre: Action station-go! (in French). Éditions Die Poorte.
Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.
ISBN978-1-86176-246-7.
This article includes data released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported UK: England & Wales Licence, by the
National Maritime Museum, as part of the
Warship Histories project.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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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.
Spider has been the name of a number of vessels of the British
Royal Navy;
HMS Spider (1782), formerly the
privateerVictoire built at
Dunkirk earlier that year, that the Royal Navy captured in 1782, took into service, and sold at Malta in 1806.
HMS Spider (1806), formerly Vigilante, a Spanish brig-rigged
sloop captured on 4 April 1806 by
HMS Renommee, and that served in the Royal Navy for the remainder of the
Napoleonic Wars.[1] She was broken up in 1815 at Antigua.
HMS Spider (1835), a six-gun
schooner built at
Chatham in 1835 to a design by Sir Robert Seppings, which served in South America before becoming an engine fitters' vessel at
Plymouth in 1855. Dimensions: Length Overall: 80' 2" x Breadth: 23' 3" x Depth: 9' 10"[2]
HMS Spider (1856), a wooden
gunboat built on the
Tyne by T W Smith in 1856, which later served in South America and South Africa. Dimensions: Length Overall: 106' x Breadth: 22' x Depth: 8' [3]
HMS Spider (1887), a steel, twin-screw
torpedo gunboat built at
Devonport in 1887.[4] Of 525 tons displacement, she was armed with one 4" gun and six 3-pounder Quick-firing guns. She had two fixed torpedo tubes and two launching cradles.
HMS Spider, a coastal destroyer renamed
TB 5 in 1906.[5]
Spider, a stern-wheeled gunboat launched by Thornycroft in 1909 that in 1912 served the South Nigerian government.
Spider, formerly the wooden fishing boat Francisco Antonio Quarto,[6] purchased at
Gibraltar in 1941 and used as a
degaussing vessel.[7]
Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
ISBN2-906381-23-3
Carlier, Libera Bruno (1965). Opération Flandre: Action station-go! (in French). Éditions Die Poorte.
Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.
ISBN978-1-86176-246-7.
This article includes data released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported UK: England & Wales Licence, by the
National Maritime Museum, as part of the
Warship Histories project.
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.